Dr. Martin Hash Podcast

Basic Income is the idea that everyone should get enough money to live on so they can pursue what they want in life without having to work for it: a Right to free money. Money comes from taxes or government prints it. If it's simply newly printed money then it doesn't necessarily violate anybody's liberty, but I can't see that lasting for long: a $trillion a year with nothing in return is probably hyper-inflationary? However, it seems more likely that Basic Income would come from some kind of taxes. Many advocates of Basic Income insist it's not socialism but then who's against it? Certainly not the socialists. Let me see, who would be against a Basic Income? Hey, it might be the people OBLIGATED to pay it. And why do they have to pay it? Well, because even though it's bad for them personally, it's good for everybody; the idea that the needs of the group supersede the wants of the individual, which is socialism, the opposite of liberty.