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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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