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UBI can’t have conditions and must be to everyone

Francese & Prady 18 (Maura, Delphine, MAURA FRANCESE is a senior economist and DELPHINE PRADY an economist in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department and has a PhD from Toulouse School of Economics, “WHAT IS UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME?”, IMF, December 2018, https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2018/12/what-is-universal-basic-income-basics, Accessed July 27, 2023) // CD

Many governments pay pensions to elderly people, or unemployment benefits to those who lose their jobs, or child benefits to families. Cash transfers to households are common in most countries. What is a universal basic income, and how is it different from these programs? Universal basic income is an income support mechanism typically intended to reach all (or a very large portion of the population) with no (or minimal) conditions. Discussions around universal basic income can be heated, both in a scholarly context and in public discourse, and there is no established common understanding. Very different income-support programs are often labeled "universal basic income," even when they have little in common or do not aim at the same goal.

A Job is not a basic income, its an income from work, make them pick one, allowing the aff to pick in later speeches what mechanism they use allows them to no-link out of every off-case position.

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