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Re:Why we should all have a basic income by TulliusCicero on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:53AM (#13460826)
There's not any data to support it because there's no data around a nationwide, long-term UBI, period. All we have are little experiments where people know it could end at any time.
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Re:Why we should all have a basic income by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:20AM (#13462726)
Qualify that enough, you can make the point. But UBI has been around long enough to collect data (pensions, Alaska, experiments). What people 'know' has no place in economics. We can measure - did prices rise in those places? No? Yes? How much?
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