Re:No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve th...
by sgift on Friday June 02, 2017 @11:00AM
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That's mostly a function of taxation though, isn't it? I agree that UBI won't be possible with the current system of mainly taxing workers and reducing the taxation of everyone else (common trend in most western countries), but that's not a given or do you think we won't be able to change that?
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Re:No politics please, we're hackers, too busy to improve th...
by atemerev on Friday June 02, 2017 @12:20PM
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It is impossible even with taxing everybody 100% and redistributing everything.
"Mainly taxing workers" provides the bulk of taxation revenues not because it is the easiest thing politically — it is because of where the money is. The money is in the middle class. The rich are too few, and the poor are too poor.