America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cash to the rich

Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by wonderwonder on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:51AM (#30174243)

Since we are speaking about the US, the numbers I provided were us specific and anything that is done would be financed via us taxes, I'm pretty confident everyone knows I'm referring to the US as a whole.

"realize that the poorest of the USA are richer than many people around the world and should pay their welfare"

Why should us taxes subsidize world welfare (not that it already doesn't)?

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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by mlyle on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:56AM (#30174268)

Of course, when we're talking about a UBI, there are always some geographic distributions of wealth that one might quibble with: from large urban states to rural states. Taxes paying for UBI flowing out of California will exceed UBI flowing into California; taxes paying for UBI flowing out of Wyoming will be dwarfed by UBI flowing into Wyoming.

And, further, beyond the balance of transfers in absolute dollars-- $1000/mo in California impacts resident life less than $1000/mo in Wyoming.

I don't think this is a strong reason to not do UBI, but it's a confound.

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Re:America’s Covid job-saving programme gave most of its cas... by wonderwonder on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @08:16AM (#30177038)

would be interesting to see if a UBI actually caused more people to move to states like Wyoming and Montana. Many people too poor to actually move (lack of deposit, moving costs, etc.) would actually have the funds to move if they saved ubi for a few months. Leaving a HCOL for a LCOL state with a UBI would be a life changer for people if they were willing to do so.

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