Basic Income’s Lessons For Health Care’s ‘$1,007 Sandwich’
Today, there are 55 programs designed to help low-income earners, families, and members of other vulnerable groups in Canada. Advocates have argued that quasi-basic income cheques such as Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, and the Canada Child Benefit could be collapsed into one cash-transfer program for efficiency’s sake.
> It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
> *Former U.S. vice-president Hubert Humphrey*
To be frank… If you replace low-income earners, families, and members of other vulnerable groups in Canada’s with $1000, You aren’t lifting anyone out of poverty.