{"id":28167,"date":"2020-05-04T08:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=28167"},"modified":"2020-05-04T08:27:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T12:27:15","slug":"anglican-bishops-want-a-guaranteed-basic-income","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-bishops-want-a-guaranteed-basic-income\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican bishops want a guaranteed basic income"},"content":{"rendered":"

Canadian bishops from the Anglican Church of Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada have written an open letter<\/a> insisting that the government pay everyone a \u2018basic income\u2019 whether they work or not.<\/p>\n

Where is the money going to come from? They don\u2019t say: presumably from people who are<\/em> working. Why work if you are paid not to work? They don\u2019t say, although they are probably suffering from the woolly liberal delusion that people are innately good and will naturally want to work to support those who find laziness too tempting to resist \u2013 like me.<\/p>\n

What is really behind this? I expect they are all afraid of losing their jobs and have an uneasy feeling that they would be unemployable in any other profession.<\/p>\n

\"\"A Public Letter on Guaranteed Basic Income<\/p>\n

By General Synod Communications on May 3, 2020<\/p>\n

Dear Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister Morneau:<\/p>\n

Subject: COVID-19 Pandemic \u2013 Guaranteed Basic Income<\/p>\n

We write from across our country \u2013 from the tundra of the high Arctic, the out-ports of the Atlantic coast, from French and English speaking Canada, from urban to rural, the Prairies, the Rockies and coastal mountains and from the Pacific coast; we write as Indigenous people and as non-Indigenous. We write from across denominational traditions. As bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the Anglican Church of Canada we write, compelled by our shared faith convictions and moral obligation to care for the human condition of all.<\/p>\n

Although we represent great diversity, we write to you because we are united, and morally bound in a singular message: Canada needs Guaranteed Basic Income for all. We need it today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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