Basic income in Spain: when the unthinkable becomes reality

Convictions against universal basic income are easily put on hold when some unforeseen emergency means that those higher up the ladder also need government help.
Spain's finance minister, Nadia Calviño, says the country is implementing basic income 'as soon as possible.'
In times of great emergency, when the normal rules have been suspended, all sorts of things that used to seem unthinkable suddenly enter the realm of possibility. A national health service paid for by taxes and free at the point of delivery in the United States, for e...

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