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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by slavik81 on Monday June 21, 2021 @05:25AM (#27577580)
This is the definition of UBI (from Wikipedia):

> Universal basic income (UBI), also called unconditional basic income [...] is a sociopolitical financial transfer concept in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive a legally stipulated and equal financial grant paid by the government without a means test.

Adding a means test to ensure that only some people receive the income would make it non-universal. You're describing a classic unemployment welfare system, but proponents of UBI argue that a universal income is simpler to administer and creates fewer perverse incentives.

Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by balfirevic on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:14AM (#27579379)
People would still pay taxes on income. If the taxes you pay are larger than the UBI amount then you effectively don't receive it any more, even if it's accounted in the way that you receive $1000 UBI and then pay $1000 (or $2000 or $5000) in taxes.