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Universal Basic Income and Land Value: A Canadian Assessment, with Implications for America

In: Financing Basic Income

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  • Richard Pereira

    (York University)

Abstract

Recent and prominent basic income proposals in the United States and Canada are introduced and explained in this chapter, with a focus on Andrew Yang’s Freedom Dividend financing proposal. A new financing method is explored for both countries based on land value—one with a rich philosophical and political tradition in America dating back to Thomas Paine and Henry George. The concept of a land value levy or LVT (Land Value Taxation) is quantified and applied to the financing of a basic income for the first time in Canada, and presented as an alternative financing option to Yang’s VAT (Value Added Tax) for the Freedom Dividend in the United States. The LVT’s progressive structure versus the VAT’s regressive impacts are explored and offered as a complementary finance mechanism to the Financial Transaction Tax and other elements of Yang’s proposal, while removing VAT. Other sources of economic rent are discussed in the final section to further increase dividend payments to citizens.

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  • Richard Pereira, 2023. "Universal Basic Income and Land Value: A Canadian Assessment, with Implications for America," Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, in: Richard Pereira (ed.), Financing Basic Income, edition 2, chapter 0, pages 119-137, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:etbchp:978-3-031-29012-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29012-1_6
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