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As many benefits as possible should be made universal

I would prefer more careful decisions about which benefits were needed and making as many of them as possible universal, with a fairer tax system being used to recover money from those whose income is above the threshold selected. READ MORE: Kate Forbes urges Westminster action as Scotland's economy shrinks The Government should be giving serious consideration to Universal Basic Income as a way of reducing the poverty problem in this country, giving everyone at least the bare minimum necessary to live decently and enabling them to make decisions much more freely about their role in society: which job to take or go for, becoming more entrepreneurial and having the opportunity to participate more easily and more fully in the life of their communities. Bob Gillespie Glasgow