Taxation, Human Rights, and a Universal Basic Income
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This concluding chapter explores the arguments for and against a universal basic income (UBI) in light of the provisions of international human rights law. To appreciate the significance of a UBI, at least in its comprehensive and ideal form, it is important to note that it is explicitly designed to challenge most of the key assumptions underpinning traditional social security systems. The most committed proponents of UBI proclaim their approach to be utopian, not in the sense of being unrealistic or unachievable, but as providing a highly ambitious, sweeping, and progressive vision. Meanwhile, critics or skeptics who raise objections based on unaffordability, the unacceptability of unconditionality, or the unrealistic change in mentality required will often be dismissed as unimaginative defenders of an obviously unsatisfactory status quo.
Source Publication
Tax, Inequality, and Human Rights
Source Editors/Authors
Philip Alston, Nikki Reisch
Publication Date
2019
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G., "Taxation, Human Rights, and a Universal Basic Income" (2019). Faculty Chapters. 23.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/23
