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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by ThrowawayR2 on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:11PM (#17013889)
> People who do not own property do not pay property taxes, so less wealthy people are naturally excused from such taxation.

The less wealthy have those property taxes rolled into their monthly rent, so I fail to see how you can make that claim.

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Re:12-year study will look at effects of universal basic income by airstrike on Monday May 07, 2018 @12:58PM (#17014301)
It should be evident that if the alternative is paying rent AND income taxes, then the less wealthy are relatively better off in the case of no income taxes.
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