Ironically (under a Universal Basic Income program) you’d have to raise taxes on workers -- it would be a wealth transfer to the privileged from the working class people – Conservative Finance critic Pierre Poilievre
As I mentioned yesterday, I attended a smaller gathering of Conservatives in Kamloops , which was attended by Kamloops Thompson Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod, and the Conservatives finance critic Pierre Poilievre. During the question and answer period that followed, I asked Poilievre about the idea of instituting a Universal Basic Income (UBI), being floated by the Liberals ... and what his thoughts were on that. This was his reply: It’s too soon – it’s difficult to say what they’re going to do. I’ll give you a bit of an overview on the universal basic income issue. With universal income ... the basic idea is everyone would get a flat income cheque from the government, and depending on the model, that cheque would be clawed back based on your earnings. The idea originated with a free market economist in the United States named Milton Friedman whose idea was the United States government would get rid of every single social program, and replace it with a cheque in every mailb...