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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by vasilipupkin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:21PM (#11842597)
You are forgetting that your down payment ( and equity )is tied up in the house, when it could be invested elsewhere.
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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by bane on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:54PM (#11843072)
If you run the numbers and assume a market rate of return on most investments, it's very hard to turn the relatively small amount of money a down payment is into a net gain after 30 years.
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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by vasilipupkin on Monday June 06, 2016 @07:30AM (#11845922)
that statement is simply false
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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by bane on Monday June 06, 2016 @08:57PM (#11851670)
feel free to run the numbers and present here
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