Guest post by Tom Streithorst

The Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is back in the news. The

are considering implementing it, as are the

, replacing all means tested benefits with a simple grant to every citizen, giving everyone enough money to survive. Unlike most current benefits programmes, it is not contingent on being worthy or deserving or even poor. Everybody gets it, you, me, Rupert Murdoch, the homeless man sleeping under a bridge. Last seriously proposed by Richard Nixon in 1969,

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that the