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Re:Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system by mason240 on Thursday August 20, 2015 @09:29AM (#10091657)
Wouldn't the simpler solution be to simply reduce the pensions by the amount of UBI?

For example, a pensioner gettin $40k/year would get $25k under a $15k UBI. You would have to get them to agree to the renegotiation, so I suppose it's not a realistic solution.

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Re:Finland considers basic income to reform welfare system by danieltillett on Thursday August 20, 2015 @10:08AM (#10091905)
Yes it would, although getting people to give up something is hard. Personally I would structure a UBI as a large negative income tax to try and avoid these problems.
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