http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...you-willing-to-trust-the-poor/article1806904/
It's an interesting idea.
I would support it only if it meant disbanding all the variety of agencies that disburse cash to people:
Shut down CPP, shut down OAS, shut down all the welfare and EI administrations, and every other similar government agency, saving the taxpayer the expense of all of those administrations.
Replace it all with a single, simple, small agency that gives everyone $20k.
It could be an add-on to CRA, say, so that it was integrated with tax collection. They already have the apparatus for tracking incomes and making payments.
Still a controversial idea that is likely to get the backs up of people with particular ideology. Out will come claims of inflation, and so on, but if in the end we're pumping the same number of dollars into the economy through this scheme as through those that it replaces then that's actually not likely the case.
It's an interesting idea.
I would support it only if it meant disbanding all the variety of agencies that disburse cash to people:
Shut down CPP, shut down OAS, shut down all the welfare and EI administrations, and every other similar government agency, saving the taxpayer the expense of all of those administrations.
Replace it all with a single, simple, small agency that gives everyone $20k.
It could be an add-on to CRA, say, so that it was integrated with tax collection. They already have the apparatus for tracking incomes and making payments.
Still a controversial idea that is likely to get the backs up of people with particular ideology. Out will come claims of inflation, and so on, but if in the end we're pumping the same number of dollars into the economy through this scheme as through those that it replaces then that's actually not likely the case.