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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by nottorp on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @05:25PM (#27597435)
If you're doing the negative income tax, yeah. If you do plain UBI, no, because it's an unconditional payment.
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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by dbsmith83 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @01:01AM (#27600966)
We're not talking about hiding money obtained via UBI
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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by nottorp on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @08:21AM (#27603600)
Then how will UBI encourage income tax evasion? You get it unconditionally so it won’t change anything…
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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by dbsmith83 on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @10:33AM (#27605001)
Again, we're not talking about UBI money, we're talking about money earned after UBI. Without UBI, people who work in cash businesses have to report a certain amount of income to justify their living expenses. With UBI, there is nothing to justify, and it makes it much easier to operate your own cash-only side hustles tax-free as long as you live in a place you can afford solely using UBI.
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