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2. Is a Citizen’s Income Feasible? And What Do We Mean by ‘Feasible’?

verfasst von : Malcolm Torry

Erschienen in: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

This second of two introductory chapters introduces the different feasibilities that will be tested in the following chapters, and asks how the different feasibilities might relate to each other, how they might combine to create a general feasibility, and how we might construct feasibility tests. Whether feasibility predicts implementation will be raised as a question to be tackled at the end of the book. At the heart of the chapter is the important distinction between a Citizen’s Income (which is always an unconditional and nonwithdrawable income for every individual) and a Citizen’s Income scheme (which specifies the levels of Citizen’s Incomes for different age groups and the ways in which they will be paid for).

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Cf. Francesca Pasquali (2012) Virtuous Imbalance: Political Philosophy between Desirability and Feasibility (Farnham: Ashgate), p. 60, on the importance of keeping ideological considerations separate from other feasibilities. Not to maintain the separation limits ‘normative work to the domain of the practically relevant options’ (p. 188) and therefore constrains it unnecessarily. The relationship is similar to that between science and technology. To limit science to the immediately practicable would deprive technology of scientific developments that later on find technological uses.

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Peter Townsend (1979) Poverty in the United Kingdom (Harmondsworth: Penguin), p. 151; Keith G. Banting (1979) Poverty, Politics and Policy: Britain in the 1960s (London: Macmillan), p. 95. The problem had to some extent been ameliorated by Family Allowance being taxed as earned income and by a ‘clawback’ mechanism that reduced the Child Tax Allowance by an amount for each child for whom Family Allowance was in payment. In 1974–5, a Child Tax Allowance of £240 was reduced by £52 for each child for whom Family Allowance was paid. (Nicholas Barr and Fiona Coulter (1991) ‘Social Security: Solution or Problem?’, pp. 274–337 in John Hills (ed.), The State of Welfare: The Welfare State in Britain since 1974 (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 279–80.) The significance of this seemingly insignificant piece of history is that it marked the first direct relationship between the tax and benefits systems. (Keith G. Banting (1979) Poverty, Politics and Policy: Britain in the 1960s (London: Macmillan), p. 66.)

Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend (1966) The Poor and the Poorest: A new analysis of the Ministry of Labour’s Family Expenditure Surveys of 1953–54 and 1960 (London: Bell); Richard Titmuss (1962) Income Distribution and Social Change (London: Allen and Unwin).

Michael Hill (1990) Social Security Policy in Britain (London: Edward Elgar), p. 41.

On Peter Townsend’s contribution to this debate, see Tony Atkinson (2011) ‘The case for universal child benefit’, pp. 79–90 in Alan Walker, Adrian Sinfield and Carol Walker (eds), Fighting Poverty, Inequality and Injustice: A manifesto inspired by Peter Townsend (Cambridge: Polity Press), p. 83.

A.B. Atkinson (1969) Poverty in Britain and the Reform of Social Security, p. 141.

Paul Spicker (2011) How Social Security Works: An Introduction to Benefits in Britain (Bristol: Policy Press), p. 118. Before his death, Malcolm Wicks MP admitted to being the young civil servant who leaked the minutes.

Nicholas Barr and Fiona Coulter (1991) ‘Social Security: Solution of Problem’, p. 291. See also the film Made in Dagenham (2010) on the campaign for equal pay for equal work.

John Walley (1986) ‘Public support for families with children: A study of British politics’, BIRG Bulletin, no. 5, pp. 8–11; Keith G. Banting (1979) Poverty, Politics and Policy, pp. 102–103; Paul Spicker, How Social Security Works, p. 119; Nicholas Barr and Fiona Coulter, ‘Social Security: Solution or Problem?’, pp. 279–80.

Titel: Is a Citizen’s Income Feasible? And What Do We Mean by ‘Feasible’?
verfasst von: Malcolm Torry
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: The Feasibility of Citizen's Income
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-53077-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-53078-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53078-3_2