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And if you retain the SSA, one of the biggest arguments for UBI (dismantling wasteful government agencies) gets defenestrated.
by greedo 10y ago
And if you retain the SSA, one of the biggest arguments for UBI (dismantling wasteful government agencies) gets defenestrated.
- ars 10y agoI would expect the SSA to be the ones administering the UBI plan.
- galdosdi 10y agoActually, SSA is very efficient. SSA spends just a fraction of a percentage point of the benefits it distributes on administrative costs (ie, the existence and operation of SSA itself). But even the vast majority of that is for the means-tested SSI Title 16 program, not the simpler Title 2 SS programs. Since a UBI is much simpler than either of those, SSA could easily save even more -- there would certainly be plenty of consolidation and maybe downsizing possible after passage of UBI. But there's no reason to throw away the common infrastructure for payments that already exists.