I'm not sure that this one is different in kind or degree from the January/February 2015 resolution
Resolved: Just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage.
I am going to quote myself from an earlier post about another potential resolutions:
. . . , this resolution seems to tick all of the boxes. There are social justice issues and economic issues and individual rights and are corporations people issues. . . .[In addition to] the perennial Hobbes v Locke debate, we can get a classic Adam Smith v Karl Marx debate. The young'uns can run justice with whatever definition they like. Downey's young'uns can run Rand and my young'uns can read our Rand blocks. Fun Times!Once again, we're confronted with a quasi-policy resolution, but because there is no stock issue demand for a plan text, the debate can and likely will get muddled quickly. How a universal basic income is initiated is important, but LDers will be able to spike out of nearly all specifics by claiming "that's not how the universal basic income I'm advocating will work."
That said, there should be plenty of research. In addition to recent work that advocates the "universal basic income" as a response to jobs lost to technology, Libertarian Charles Murray advocated that the government eliminate social programs and cut a check to to every U. S. citizen.
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