Insofar as I’m a plan of UBI schemes, I’ve always been a fan of “UBI keeps you from starving or being homeless, UBI +...
My understanding of UBI is that it would make it easier to reduce the number of people on programs like food stamps,...
At least some chunk of that money could come from the huge bureaucracy that would no longer be needed. After all, if...
Well from what i know you just raise taxes so that for ppl above a certain income level the tax increase covers their...
Have you read up on post-scarcity economics? I think it’s interesting stuff! The basic idea is that, as technology...
Isn’t that what makes it “universal”? It would probably mean that the minimum wage would be lowered or nonexistent since...
Well, a lot of the $ for UBI comes from not having to fund Section 8, welfare, SNAP, WIC, etc, etc, etc, along with...
Well, part of it comes from the fact that if you have UBI, you can largely do away with all the machinery that currently...
Right, duh
You don’t even need a distinctly progressive tax, since a percentage of income scales and a flat payout does not. But a...
You end up with high taxation of the earned income from jobs, particularly for high earners. We can also get creative...
Commenting because we have had a few UBI suggestions in Finland. The answer to “where the hell is this money actually...
Okay, this is a slightly different meaning than I thought. My understanding of UBI is “if you make less than $x, UBI...