----- Original Message ----- From: "dlawbailey" <dlawbailey at netzero.net>
> Justin writes:
>
> "The proposal I'm making has been called "Basic Income" by its advocates
> (Phillipe van Parijs, for one).
>
> I'm not familiar with the specific proposal but I think you are certainly
> onto something. Because money is already a universal contract I think that,
> basically, it can have more terms added to it. Some amount of credit money
> should go hand-in-hand with citizenship. Whether it should be an income or
> a credit or an outright grant, I can't say at the moment, however, I think
> it should likely be a credit rather than an income. The income could be a
> revenue stream from the investment of the credit. That would make the
> government the bank/investment bank for the nation, rather than a giant,
> national dole.
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