Universal Basic Income

Re:Universal Basic Income by snrplfth on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:17AM (#13309641)

Okay, but if you are, on net, not paying in more to the system than you're getting, then someone is going to have to pay that difference. You cannot maintain all those social programs, and a UBI, without those very large tax increases to pay for those who are net UBI consumers.

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Re:Universal Basic Income by bryanlarsen on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:35AM (#13309770)

Certainly. If you work the numbers, you'll find that you can get a workable UBI with hundreds of billions in benefit reductions and hundreds of billions in non-offset tax increases.

Really big numbers, but not crazy unworkable big.

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Re:Universal Basic Income by snrplfth on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:52AM (#13309905)

A hundred billion here, a hundred billion there; pretty soon you're talking real money.

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