(January 21, 2015 at 4:39 pm)Minimalist Wrote: What accounts?
Many poor people do not have bank accounts and let's not pretend that banks are out there trying to get them in the door.
If the government was going to start offering a basic income, banks would be falling over themselves to offer accounts to the poor. Just imagine the fee schedules they could come up with for millions of new (and ignorant) account holders!
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