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IMO social security is too much of a hot button issue to touch. I'd market UBI as "social security for everyone" - that sets both the level that people get, and
by ThrustVectoring 11y ago
IMO social security is too much of a hot button issue to touch. I'd market UBI as "social security for everyone" - that sets both the level that people get, and neatly removes the issue of giving both UBI and social security to retirees.
- dragonwriter 11y ago>I'd market UBI as "social security for everyone" - that sets both the level that people get No, it doesn't. Social security isn't a fixed amount, its based on prior earnings, adjusted by a wage index since the time they were earned, put through formula to get a base benefit amount in the year you start drawing them, and then inflation adjusted after retirement. So calling a UBI "Social Security for everyone" does not, in fact, tell you what the benefit amount would be -- if the benefit amount is calculated anything like Social Security, the program is nothing like a UBI.
- ThrustVectoring 11y agoSorry, I wasn't as clear about the plan as I could have been. To be more specific, I'd set UBI at a level that everyone who is currently getting Social Security based on age would rather switch to getting UBI instead. Then I'd discontinue SS and call the UBI program "Social Security", and pretend that I didn't get rid of the entire SS program. Wrap that change up as a package deal along with taxes to fund it, and call it "Social Security for Everyone".
- forgotmysn 11y agoim not sure people are happy enough with the implementation of social security to be sold with that premise. id sell it as a solution to social security, rather than an expansion of it