Re:Outsourced Jobs Are No Longer Cheap, So They're Being Aut...
by AnthonyMouse on Thursday October 09, 2014 @12:59PM
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> The real question here, which is more or less unrelated to inflation: why do we want to shift resources from investment to consumption?
Putting aside the question of whether a basic income would actually shift resources from investment to consumption, there is a very simple way to offset it. Raise the money using a consumption tax (ideally VAT).
Putting aside the question of whether a basic income would actually shift resources from investment to consumption, there is a very simple way to offset it. Raise the money using a consumption tax (ideally VAT).