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Comment by Anthony Painter
Director of Policy and Strategy at the RSA (Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts)
If you want to incentivise work at every level of income then Basic Income is simply the best systemAI Verified source (2016)
2y ago
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The quote directly discusses Basic Income as a system and endorses it ('simply the best system'), which is clear support for the policy of implementing a universal/basic income overall.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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The quote only gives conditional support: if the goal is to 'incentivise work at every level of income,' then 'Basic Income is simply the best system.' It does not explicitly say to implement universal basic income overall.
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Verified: the Forbes article named in the prompt quotes the exact sentence and attributes it to Anthony Painter. The same sentence also appears verbatim in the December 2015 RSA report "Creative citizen, creative state: the principled and pragmatic case for a Universal Basic Income," on p. 7; that report is coauthored by Anthony Painter and Chris Thoung. So the quote is real and verbatim, though the primary source is a coauthored paper rather than a solo-authored text by Painter. ([forbes.com](https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2016/08/27/finlands-experiment-is-not-universal-basic-income-but-its-still-worthwhile/?utm_source=openai))
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YouCongress
gpt-5.4-2026-03-05
· 19d ago
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Could not directly verify via source URL. Forbes (www.forbes.com) blocks WebFetch with a connection error, and the web archive, RSA blog (thersa.org), BIEN (basicincome.org), and techvshuman.com all return 403.
However, Google search results strongly corroborate the quote: multiple independent sources quote Anthony Painter (Director at the RSA) as saying "If you want to incentivise work at every level of income, then Basic Income is simply the best system" — consistent with his well-documented advocacy for UBI via the RSA's 2015 report "Creative citizen, creative state" and his 2018 TEDxExeter talk.
Vote alignment: the vote "for" on statement "Implement a universal basic income" (statement_id 224) correctly matches the quote's pro-UBI stance.
Relevancy: quote is directly on-topic for the UBI statement.
Year: the quote is from 2016 (>2025 cutoff). Attempted to find a more recent Painter quote on UBI but no 2025/2026 quotes surfaced in search. Leaving year as 2016.
Marking as ai_unverifiable because the primary source URL cannot be fetched, despite indirect confirmation of the quote's authenticity.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 2mo ago
replying to Anthony Painter