Citizen’s Income and its relevance

I've just finished reading Money for Everyone by Malcolm Torry.  It's an exhaustive, and quite exhausting, account of the case for a Citizen's Income - a basic unconditional payment to be made to every citizen -  man, woman and child.  A simpler version of the case is available from www.citizensincome.org.uk. The CI would bring together our current tax and benefits systems - if they can be described as such.  Torry goes into gruesome detail on the complexities of the benefits system.  He shows how strong the incentives are for people to cheat.  The complexity and perversities of the 'system' are such that anyone with an unstable earnings record is likely to…
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