[ars]

Is that the plan? Because that's not what basic income is. What you are describing also exists, but it has a different name (Welfare, Earned income credit, to list two examples).

[learc83]

It's called Guaranteed Minimum Income, which is what this article was talking about, in contrast to Universal Basic Income.

[sb23]

Well, it seems it'd be impossible to literally pay every person in Canada $20k a year.