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	<title>Comments on: A Basic Income Guarantee is Never Going to Substitute for the Welfare State</title>
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		<title>By: valeriekeefe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2014 04:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, &quot;the can&#039;t win, capitalism is irredeemably corrput as evidenced by those 40 years of irredeemably corrupt capitalism, before the last 40, where wages and productivity were joined at the hip,&quot; argument. Always a seductive one for people who don&#039;t want to expend any effort or in any way accept any of the premises of an idea they find antihetical (which is supremely ironic for the Marxists in the room). It was southern white supremacists that killed this thing the last time around (passed the House and Nixon was going to sign it).

At any rate, I am concerned with the amelioration of exploitation, poverty, and the use of coercion, especially that which is not subject to public review, to control the lives of the unpropertied, and I am far more convinced of the state&#039;s ability guarantee these things compared to mutual aid, for precisely the same reason that I like the federal government to raise money to combat youth homelessness instead of the Salvation Army.

At any rate, it&#039;s odd that appeals to inevitability and implacability are only proffered when a project that would make the poor better off is introduced. The rest of the time, you&#039;re more than prepared to call for people to stand behind their principles and promote reforms, even incremental reforms on their merits. Ah well, such is the life of feckless apologists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah, &#8220;the can&#8217;t win, capitalism is irredeemably corrput as evidenced by those 40 years of irredeemably corrupt capitalism, before the last 40, where wages and productivity were joined at the hip,&#8221; argument. Always a seductive one for people who don&#8217;t want to expend any effort or in any way accept any of the premises of an idea they find antihetical (which is supremely ironic for the Marxists in the room). It was southern white supremacists that killed this thing the last time around (passed the House and Nixon was going to sign it).</p>
<p>At any rate, I am concerned with the amelioration of exploitation, poverty, and the use of coercion, especially that which is not subject to public review, to control the lives of the unpropertied, and I am far more convinced of the state&#8217;s ability guarantee these things compared to mutual aid, for precisely the same reason that I like the federal government to raise money to combat youth homelessness instead of the Salvation Army.</p>
<p>At any rate, it&#8217;s odd that appeals to inevitability and implacability are only proffered when a project that would make the poor better off is introduced. The rest of the time, you&#8217;re more than prepared to call for people to stand behind their principles and promote reforms, even incremental reforms on their merits. Ah well, such is the life of feckless apologists.</p>
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