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Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by Joeri on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:40PM (#9821479)
Basic income does run the risk of causing ancillary money creation. People may end up lending more because they have a guaranteed income. For example, my country at one point introduced a tax credit for home loans, provided it was your only home, to incentivize people to become owner instead of renter and gain financial security. The net effect was that home prices rose to offset the tax credit, because many people lend at the upper range of their budget and suddenly that limit was higher. Basic income risks having a similar effect.
Re:A Dutch city is giving money away to test the basic incom... by branchless on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:47PM (#9821526)
Ok yes it could do, but your example augments my main point. Most credit creation is against land. When you incentivise land speculation you create inflation. We've seen this leading up into 2008 when the money supply rocketed.

Basic income is IMHO a bad idea and we should do land value tax, as I said in my post. I don't think basic income would prove as inflationary as a direct tax subsidy against land speculation as the former could feed into some land speculation whereas the latter is basically intended to fuel this fire.

edit - whoops realised I put about land value tax in my other comment. Anyways: land value tax - the establishment hate it.