There are variants that don't have that property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax Part of

There are variants that don't have that property. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax Part of the problem with Basic income is there are a huge # of variants and frequently when you find two people that agree that we should implement basic income don't actually agree on the variant we should go with.