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A comment on Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult. Parent comment

Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult by alextingle on Saturday October 05, 2013 @09:19AM (#6500596)
Negative income tax seems quite hard to administer when compared to a basic income. Why bother with all the bureaucracy required to deal with accounting for millions of minuscule incomes, when a simple flat payment would do the same job?
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Re:Swiss to vote on 2,500 franc basic income for every adult by seeken on Saturday October 05, 2013 @03:50PM (#6501809)
You have to do the income tax anyway, you might as well run the two programs together.
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