Debate: Is Basic Income a Human Right??
Side: Yes!

I wrote a long argument about why Basic Income is required, based on the need to reduce the inequality to maintain the balance of power that is fundamental to maintaining our democracy. But I also wanted to just list all the other good features of a Basic Income.1) Saves our democracy from turning into a plutocracy.2) Ends Poverty.3) Is the perfect tool for limiting economic inequality.4) With the reduction in inequality, we have less crime and violence.5) With the reduction in inequality, we have less people in prison.5) With the reduction in inequality, we have less mental illness, such as depression.6) With the reduction in inequality, we have less paranoia and distrust in society.7) With the reduction in paranoia, we will have less people feeling the need to own guns.8) With the reduction in paranoia, we have less fear of other nations, and less war.9) With the reduction in inequality, we have less teen pregnancies.10) With the reduction in inequality, we have less health problems, and longer life spans.11) With a BI, everyone has the power to leave a bad relationship.12) Woman will no longer be forced into the sex trade, for a lack of money.13) People with creative talents will be freed to create.14) No one will be too poor to vote (can't afford time off, no car, etc).15) We can eliminate minimum wage laws, and free business to hire at any rate.16) People will have bargaining power without the need for labor unions.17) We won't need labor unions at all.18) Unemployment will be eliminated.19) Anyone that wants to work, will have endless options to choose from.20) We can eliminate almost all other welfare programs.21) We can eliminate the huge government welfare bureaucracy.22) No one will need to beg the government for money again.23) No one will feel degraded or second class, for being on welfare.24) We can remove all tax codes, meant to be forms of welfare.25) We can eliminate the progressive income tax, and use a flat income tax.26) We can eliminate all deductions, meant to provide "help" for those that need it.27) We can eliminate all special filing statuses like "married" because that's welfare.28) With all welfare features removed form the income tax we are left with a flat tax.29) With a flat income tax, it can be implemented as payroll deductions.30) With income as payroll deductions, no one has to file an income tax form again.31) Discrimination laws become unnecessary, once we create fair equality though a BI32) Everyone gets to be part of society, because they always have money to spend.33) Cash is the ultimate form of individual freedom, and everyone will always have cash.Edited to add more:34) A BI reduces the fear that drives recessions and the euphoria that drives bubbles.35) A BI acts as an economic stabilizer reducing the depth of recessions.36) Replacing welfare programs with a BI shrinks the size of government.37) A BI gives the government a tool for regulation of consumer demand.38) A BI combined with taxes, creates a tool for shaping economic behaviors for public good -- like reducing consumption of fossil fuels by putting a tax on fossil fuels where the tax is not given to the government to spend, but given to the people in their BI. Current taxes meant for that purpose tend to expand government as a bad side effect.39) A BI gives individuals the power, and responsibility, to take care of themselves, instead of expecting the government to take care of them.40) A BI helps create equal opportunity for all people to build their own happy and successful life, instead of being helped, or handicapped, by circumstance out of their control.41) A BI gives people the power to build their own version of a happy life, instead of the version of a happy life the government, the social majority, or the rich, think one should lead.42) A world wide BI (not just individual nations) will end all poverty, and war on the planet. Forever. It won't end social disagreements, but it will end the use of guns to resolve the disagreements.43) A BI will accelerate the development of automation to replace workers.44) A BI will accelerate the end of work and the day everyone can retire from work-for-pay.