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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by dagw on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:12AM (#27579352)
people pay taxes into the UBI pool but never get anything back.

They get to live and work legally in the US and get a salary paid in US dollars. That seems to worth a lot to a lot of people. You are of course right about the very obvious two class system it will create and the long term social consequences of such a system are tricky to predict.

Edit: The US birthright citizenship rules might actually make this harder to implement.

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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by foogazi on Monday June 21, 2021 @10:51AM (#27579719)
> They get to live and work legally in the US and get a salary paid in US dollars.

If this is so good why the need for a UBI for citizens in the first place?

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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by dagw on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:01PM (#27581075)
Because the US should want to provide a better quality of life for its citizens than what those people feeling and risking everything in a desperate attempt to get into the US have in their home countries.
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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by foogazi on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:23PM (#27597400)
The US (it’s just people) already has a higher quality of life for its citizens - that’s why people come here.
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