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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by jonkho on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:12AM (#23141253)
Fair enough, but I’m more concerned if UBI turned out to be a bad policy, would it be repealed? Practically speaking, the government has a poor track record of back pedaling on bad policies once they are in place.
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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by mercer on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:32AM (#23141367)
Possibly. it's an interesting point.

I'd say no, though. My experience so far has been that my government has had no problems repealing (to various degrees) things like health care, education/student loans, or public ownership of various things. From my limited knowledge this has been similar in much of the Western world, at least.

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by ajsnigrutin on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:41AM (#23141443)
Better question is, after they took away/shrunk down the service, did they lower the taxes because of that cost saving?

In slovenia, we still have the "financial crisis" (2008) 22% VAT, which we "temporary" increased back then (from 20%).

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by mercer on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:54AM (#23141550)
To a degree I feel discussing this is a distraction of my basic point (we have become productive enough even in just a few decades to indulge in these experiments).

But honestly I think it's a great point. Our taxes did not go down, as far as I know. I'll check in one of the coming days, but I'd be shocked to find out it did...

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Re:Results: Finland’s Basic Income Experiment Help Us Build ... by ajsnigrutin on Monday May 11, 2020 @08:22AM (#23141302)
I'm skeptical about this too.... especialy if the UBI was the 'thing' that got them elected in the first place. And people would be protesting because they'd be losing 'free money'.
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