Month: January 2017

Comment on Basic Income by mrG

Segal’s report already clearly specifies they will not even consider testing any form of no-means-tested unconditional #basicincome, which is the only form known to work, and in the 17 months since the first announcement we haven’t seen even the slightest budge from the plan outlined in his no-discussion paper, and repeatedly specific details (like 75% of StatsCan’s own Low Income measure) given to the press as if it was a done deal, so I really find it hard to get excited about any sort of public consultation.

I try not to be cynical, and I wish it were otherwise, but I don’t see Wynne abandoning the Ontario caste system. To even propose 75% of the LOW measure is already to admit how important they find it to “keep the poor in their proper place” and insure the poor can still be leveraged into doing the dirty work, only now, with Wynne-Segal Welfare2.0, they can offer the immigrant single mom the same low wage, but with reduced hours, knowing she has no choice but to say thank-you ma’am and fall in line.

I still hope to be completely proven wrong.