A fascinating article by Jonathon Rutherford in Guardian Comment today:

[Joe Chi Minh]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/19/welfare-tuc-community-values?commentpage=1&commentposted=1

[johan helge]

1. John Kenneth Galbraith supported a citizen's income

John Kenneth Galbraith in 1999 (http://www.citizensincome.org/resources/newsletterAutumn99.shtml):

"(E)verybody should be guaranteed a decent basic income. A rich country such as the US can well afford to keep everybody out of poverty. Some, it will be said, will seize upon the income and won’t work. So it is now with more limited welfare, as it is called. Let us accept some resort to leisure by the poor as well as by the rich."

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. Thank you. Very interesting. Galbraith is a giant, even among giants, imo. An

Einstein on a broader canvas.