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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by luckylion on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:48AM (#23258290)
How do you handle people wanting to move to Alaska? And how do you get Alaskans on board for paying higher taxes to fund it?

If you're not asking them to fund it, you're not testing UBI, you're testing "if an external entity provides money to a community without asking for anything in return, will that be cool?"

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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by RockIslandLine on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:42PM (#23267863)
"And how do you get Alaskans on board for paying higher taxes to fund it?"

The APF is funded by severance taxes on oil & mining. I suspect that most people are entirely fine with that tax model.

The problem is that it only supports a small benefit.

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Re:Jack Dorsey is giving Andrew Yang $5M to build the case f... by luckylion on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:00AM (#23269373)
Yeah, and to increase it 5 or 10 times would certainly require new taxes. I don't know whether oil and mining will still be profitable with a ten-fold increase in royalties, taxes and fees, but I have a feeling that it won't.
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