Re:Policies that make the poor less poor
by dragonwriter on Monday June 21, 2021 @12:54PM
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> That's an argument for "progressive" support, and against the threshold effect, not for basic income.
> There should be no hard threshold, social support should be linear, and be reduced with the more money you earn. Like taxes but in reverse.
UBI is a combination of two things:
(1) Gradual phase-out of support (I think this is your “progressive support”), and
(2) Recognizing that this isn’t just metaphorically “like taxes but in reverse” but it is largely identical (but for variations of definitions applied that do more to increase administrative costs than to advance any programmatic goal) functions performed by the tax bureaucracy, so that having multiple separate welfare bureaucracies assessing and measuring slightly different definitions of income and a few different add-on requirements for each program is mostly waste compared to having one common definition of income and one common benefit program for programs.
> There should be no hard threshold, social support should be linear, and be reduced with the more money you earn. Like taxes but in reverse.
UBI is a combination of two things:
(1) Gradual phase-out of support (I think this is your “progressive support”), and
(2) Recognizing that this isn’t just metaphorically “like taxes but in reverse” but it is largely identical (but for variations of definitions applied that do more to increase administrative costs than to advance any programmatic goal) functions performed by the tax bureaucracy, so that having multiple separate welfare bureaucracies assessing and measuring slightly different definitions of income and a few different add-on requirements for each program is mostly waste compared to having one common definition of income and one common benefit program for programs.