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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by blacksmith_tb on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:22PM (#11424601)
Presumably though you just increase income tax to recover some or all of that from people who are employed? So the actual cost should be significantly lower.
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by bryanlarsen on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:28PM (#11424672)
Yes, taxes on the average worker would go up by the same amount as they're receiving in basic income. So the effective costs of a basic income program are a very small fraction of $3.2 trillion.
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by Jtsummers on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:24PM (#11424624)
That tax revenue isn't just from (personal or corporate) income tax. There are a number of other sources of federal tax revenue which could be increased without a (direct) impact on the same people intended to benefit from a UBI (though it will have an indirect impact).
Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by tankenmate on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:25PM (#11424636)
Some argue that if an UBI is introduced then a flat rate tax should be applied to all other income; in the US this would lead to reasonably large income tax increase.