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Allegedly, "food, clothing, medicine, and education" costs are excluded. To what extent those exemptions don't matter in practice (the grocery store pays more f
by lukifer 7y ago
Allegedly, "food, clothing, medicine, and education" costs are excluded. To what extent those exemptions don't matter in practice (the grocery store pays more for printer ink and passes the cost along to you) is debatable.
Personally, I'd rather start with a revenue-neutral Pigovian tax+dividend [0] on environmental externalities like carbon and disposable plastic, which set a price of unsustainable behaviors while also functioning as a progressive tax for the vast majority of people.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
- heavyset_go 7y ago> Allegedly, "food, clothing, medicine, and education" costs are excluded. To what extent those exemptions don't matter in practice (the grocery store pays more for printer ink and passes the cost along to you) is debatable. It still places an excessive burden on those the UBI proposal is supposed to benefit. Necessities like utilities, phones, fuel and transportation, etc will become more costly for those who are already struggling to pay for them. I could get behind a Pigovian tax, along with a land value tax or equity tax.
- lukifer 7y ago> Pigovian tax, along with a land value tax or equity tax. While I'm not opposed to VAT a priori, 100% agreed that those options are vastly superior.