Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability and feasibility relationship on its head: a reply to ‘The big tax hikes that make UBI “affordable” could be used to cut poverty in more targeted ways’ by Donald Hirsch1

Universal Basic Income: the debate

“…In response ('Changing circumstances and new basic premises: turning the affordability feasibility relationship on its head'), Reed et al (2023) argue that Hirsch's approach simply maintains the flaws of the present system and that, post-pandemic, voters' perceptions of what is feasible have been transformed. Hirsch (2023b), in the concluding contribution, 'An untested premise: would voters really support redistribution through UBI which left many of them worse off?…”