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I wonder if there is some sort of more incremental way to introduce basic minimum income that won't get legislative pushback and will scale with automation.
by afarrell 11y ago
I wonder if there is some sort of more incremental way to introduce basic minimum income that won't get legislative pushback and will scale with automation.
- ars 11y agoIt should be funded by pollution taxes (all types of pollution, let's not myopically focus on CO2). The same people who pay the taxes (i.e. everyone) will also get the money, only distributed differently. The biggest problem will be accounting for pollution embedded in imports, and refunding taxes for exports. Otherwise you will have what's going in on in Germany where they export all their pollution to China.
- generic_user 11y agoThis story says nothing about your "minimum income" can you at least try to explain how it relates to the story your commenting on. It looks fairly copypasta.
- blazespin 11y agoThis is already happening in the form of welfare, food stamps, tax credits, etc. lots of different programs.
- afarrell 11y agoThe whole point of BMI is to eliminate those programs and the perverse incentives that come with them (ex: people on CA-TANF are not allowed to have more than $2500 in savings or something.) and replace it with just cutting a cheque.