Re:Basic income as an answer to all out automation
by yungchin on Monday June 24, 2013 @06:49PM
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> that's all they owe society: paying their workers their salary.
No, that's what they owe their workers. What they owe society is tax [0]. And society can decide to use that tax to provide basic income, or anything else.
No, that's what they owe their workers. What they owe society is tax [0]. And society can decide to use that tax to provide basic income, or anything else.
[0]: see also http://world.std.com/~mhuben/faq.html#theft which addresses the "taxation is theft" view of the world