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Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by xaqfox on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:35PM (#15688766)
Sometimes it would need to be raised and sometimes it would need to be lowered. It will, however, always be a politically unpopular position to lower it, even if it needs being done.
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Re:Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supp... by frgtpsswrdlame on Monday November 13, 2017 @01:45PM (#15688885)
I guess I don't see that as really a problem with UBI though. The same is true of the criminal justice system (and lots of other government functions), for example, tons of pressure to increase sentences and basically none to lower them. It seems more like a problem with representative government than anything else.
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