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Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by guerrilla on Friday May 20, 2022 @09:53PM (#31454618)
I always have to ask: How does UBI not just result in inflation and we end up in the exact same situation as we are in now but with extra steps?
Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by chii on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:44PM (#31455079)
If UBI is paid out through printing extra currency, it will induce inflation.

But if UBI is paid out via extra taxation, then it will not induce inflation (or at least, not overall - it might induce some inflation in goods/services which wouldn't have been in demand but for the UBI, such as low cost labour). The higher taxes taken from the higher income people will reduce their demand, and thus balance out.

Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by guerrilla on Saturday May 21, 2022 @06:33AM (#31456734)
Thanks. That makes sense.
Re:Policy punishes disabled people who save more than $2k by crooked-v on Friday May 20, 2022 @11:49PM (#31455094)
UBI is a pretty small money faucet compared to the endless spending on foreign wars that the US political establishment regularly undertakes. Just give out the same amount of money to poor people instead of using it as a middle-class jobs program that kills foreigners.