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Comment by Marc de Vos

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Doctorate in Law (UGent), Master in Social Law (ULB), Master of Laws (Harvard University).
La seule façon de financer l’allocation universelle, c’est d’éliminer la Sécurité sociale existante, ce qui impliquerait une régression sociale énorme, parce qu’on remplacerait un système d’allocations sociales qui est conditionnel, focalisé sur les besoins des personnes, progressif, par un système inconditionnel. C’est ridicule. Ça ne réussira jamais.
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AI Unverifiable I could not reliably verify this as a verbatim Marc de Vos quote. The cited Le Soir URL could not be fetched, and Lesoir/Plus were blocked or returned errors. I found the same wording on YouCongress, but that page itself marks the item as "AI Unverifiable" and merely points back to the Le Soir URL, so it is not a reliable confirmation. Independent sources do support the general attribution and substance: Marc De Vos and Simon Ghiotto published *L’allocation universelle: entre rêve et réalité* in 2017, and another PDF summarizing their position says that financing a universal allowance would require eliminating the existing social-security system and would amount to a "véritable régression sociale," but it does not contain the full verbatim passage or the closing lines "C’est ridicule. Ça ne réussira jamais." ([]()) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Unable to verify the source URL directly: http://www.lesoir.be/120176/article/2017-10-19/lallocation-universelle-une-regression-sociale is blocked from WebFetch ("Claude Code is unable to fetch from www.lesoir.be"). Other checks: - Author attribution: Plausible. Marc de Vos is a known critic of UBI; he co-authored "Contre l'allocation universelle" (Montreal, Lux, 2016) and has written on the topic, so the argument (that financing UBI would require dismantling conditional social security and thus constitute a social regression) is consistent with his documented position. - Vote alignment: Correct. The quote clearly opposes UBI and the associated vote on "Implement a universal basic income" is "against". - Year: 2017. Web search did not surface a more recent (2025/2026) Marc de Vos quote on UBI to substitute. - Relevancy: Quote is directly about the statement's topic (financing/feasibility of UBI). Marking ai_unverifiable because the primary source host (lesoir.be) blocks WebFetch and no alternative mirror of the Le Soir article was found in search. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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