"UBI is attempting to cloak itself in free market rhetoric, but it's bullshit." I'm not a fan of UBI - but it's not 'bullshit' in the manner it's presented. U

"UBI is attempting to cloak itself in free market rhetoric, but it's bullshit." I'm not a fan of UBI - but it's not 'bullshit' in the manner it's presented. UBI is really a 'negative income tax' - and it was first proposed by 'Milton Freeman' - a super-duper free market capitalist. If you take progressive taxation, then make the lower ends negative - you have UBI. The concept came from economists - not socialists. But yes - it is being promoted as 'yet another form of redistribution' - but it is in many ways more economically sensible than some other ideas.