$22,000 Basic Income Would Eliminate Poverty In Canada: Report
The analysis showed that “there are ways of doing this (that) meet
our objectives of reducing poverty, inequality and insecurity,” Regehr
said in an interview with HuffPost Canada.
our objectives of reducing poverty, inequality and insecurity,” Regehr
said in an interview with HuffPost Canada.
The analysis found a
large part of the cost can be covered by shuffling around money from
existing federal and provincial programs that would be made redundant by
a basic income, such as the Working Income Tax Benefit and the GST/HST
credit.
But it would still require additional revenue to keep it from driving up deficits.