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Re:Amazon is buying Eero by Dylan16807 on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @04:07AM (#19142102)
> The funding for basic income would require more money than all of the tax revenue the federal government brings in right now.

That's not true. We have $10k tax revenue per capita, an average household size of 2.6, and the bar to get out of poverty for households of 1-4 is $12k-25k.

UBI would be a big cost but you could have an enormous impact with a program that increases the federal budget 50%. And if you set your break-even point to something like $80k of income then half that money is immediately recaptured in taxes, so now you only have to source 25% more money.

Re:Amazon is buying Eero by kortilla on Saturday February 16, 2019 @03:44AM (#19177770)
Talking about households is no longer UBI. If you want to talk about UBI, give numbers per person and then tell yourself if that proposed number could allow a single person to live in the Bay Area without working.

You’ve conveniently made an arbitrary division of 2.6 to hide the fact that a doubling would be required if UBI were truly universal, allowed people to quit working, and didn’t place restrictions on household status (as you just did).