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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by rorykoehler on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:34AM (#24220215)
You should read Andrew Yang's plan on how to pay for it. It is far more affordable than you think.
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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by mytailorisrich on Thursday August 20, 2020 @02:41AM (#24220526)
You do not say what this plan is and what UBI you are talking about.

In my example, which is what this trial does, it is plainly unaffordable.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by rorykoehler on Thursday August 20, 2020 @03:23AM (#24220759)
Read his plan
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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by mytailorisrich on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:09AM (#24221026)
If you can't even summarise how his plan would be affordable in this discussion then... I'll draw my conclusions.

That's a good summary of UBI, actually: It's great, please let's not get bogged down on details like financing.

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Re:Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial by rorykoehler on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:25AM (#24221464)
Read his plan. I won’t do it justice in a couple of sentences here
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