Re:Universal basic income: A nonprofit is about to test it i...
by AnthonyMouse on Friday April 15, 2016 @01:06PM
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> The thing of UBI is that it will be paid by your average person who isn't wealthy, it will be paid by the upper middle class.
That's generally how all taxes work. The people with more money than average pay more than average and the people with less money than average pay less than average. But the people who make $1 more than average are only suffering a net loss of $.20, whereas the people who make $100,000 more than average are paying net $20,000.
> That's why I think a better test is to select a group of people to self-fund their own UBI -- some people pay $140 and receive $100. Others pay $20 and receive $100.
In other words what you think we should do is to actually make it a law somewhere?
That's generally how all taxes work. The people with more money than average pay more than average and the people with less money than average pay less than average. But the people who make $1 more than average are only suffering a net loss of $.20, whereas the people who make $100,000 more than average are paying net $20,000.
> That's why I think a better test is to select a group of people to self-fund their own UBI -- some people pay $140 and receive $100. Others pay $20 and receive $100.
In other words what you think we should do is to actually make it a law somewhere?