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If someone's taxes go up $1000 and they get a $250 UBI check for it, that person could definitely complain.
by endtime 8y ago
If someone's taxes go up $1000 and they get a $250 UBI check for it, that person could definitely complain.
- ck425 8y agoBut they might also be able to afford to stop working for a year to say raise young children. I think the solution is to encourage everyone to take advantage of this system.
- abathur 8y agoThey could, but hopefully they'd be interested in considering how a UBI might broadly restructure social and economic dynamics, and whether that broad restructuring has effects someone sees as a fair trade (or even a great deal) for this money.
- maerF0x0 8y agoI was speaking more colloquially. Yes of course they _can_ complain. But I was more suggesting that many people would not complain its unfair without making the connection to their taxes rising. Also, btw many UBI schemes do not intend to raise taxes, but to be a bureaucracy-free distribution algorithm.