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Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America by kirse on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:10PM (#15504971)
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.

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Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America by zbentley on Thursday October 19, 2017 @12:15AM (#15505421)
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.

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Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America by mrob on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:13PM (#15504990)
That's not how the word is commonly used. By your definition all taxation is regressive.
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Re:Dollar General Hits a Gold Mine in Rural America by mehwoot on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @10:55PM (#15505149)
Read up on what the word regressive means in this context before going off on your anti gub'ment rant
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