Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by mrob on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @09:32PM
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There's nothing inherently regressive about a universal income. Taxing everybody the same percentage is considered regressive because of the diminishing marginal value of each dollar. Rich people are taxed a lower percentage when measured by utility. By the same argument, giving everybody the same basic income is progressive.
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Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by kirse on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:10PM
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There's nothing inherently regressive about a universal income
Except that universal incomes are basically adult allowances provided by Daddy Government. So they are regressive in the sense that they're an idealistic childhood notion that immature adults keep trying to carry forward into adulthood.
Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America
by zbentley on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:15AM
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Why is that notion immature? Or idealistic?
"Because that's the way it has always been" doesn't satisfy. The same was true for a whole lot of things throughout history that suddenly . . . weren't.