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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by sjtindell on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:39PM (#23994369)
The solution to not doubling the tax bill is to consolidate lots of the existing expensive programs into UBI rather than adding it on.
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Re:Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0 by CarbyAu on Thursday July 30, 2020 @12:24AM (#23994669)
I wonder how much "money you'd save" by having near zero paperwork for eligibility. Also, while those jobs would be gone, those people could then do more economically "productive" things.
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