Financing Universal Basic Income: Eliminating Poverty and Bolstering the Middle Class While Addressing Inequality, Economic Rents, and Climate Change

Riedl Drew ()
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Riedl Drew: SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

Basic Income Studies, 2020, vol. 15, issue 2, 34

Abstract: Universal Basic Income (UBI) can serve as a beneficial public policy to reduce poverty and inequality, yet a great challenge is how to fund it. This article offers a roadmap for fully funding UBI in a manner that: eliminates poverty; bolsters the middle-class; eliminates the stigma and government bureaucracy of social welfare programs; reduces ever-expanding inequality; initiates a path to meeting climate change goals; reduces speculation; and increases fairness and opportunity in the tax code. As stand-alone policies, these revenue proposals are valuable correctives in their own right. If the entire package of UBI and funding sources were in effect, society (and American capitalism) would be on a more stable, equitable, and environmentally sustainable footing.

Keywords: inequality; universal basic income; poverty; tax policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1515/bis-2020-0013

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