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Exactly.. my personal genealogy for discovering UBI was: The government should provide for a base level of food, medicine, housing, and education. But let pri
by zhoujianfu 7y ago
Exactly.. my personal genealogy for discovering UBI was:
The government should provide for a base level of food, medicine, housing, and education.
But let private industry compete for it, so just provide vouchers for each of those things.
But, how to efficiently allocate the amounts for each individual? How much health care voucher vs. food voucher vs. housing voucher vs. education voucher?
Ah, just have a universal “health or food or housing or education” voucher!
Oh, but what about transportation!
Okay, a universal “housing, food, medicine, transportation, and education” voucher.
Oh wait, we have one of those already! The dollar.
- limomium 7y agoYes. And the "universal" part makes it UNCONDITIONAL on receive, which is the important part. It removes the necessity for a government institution to decide per individual how much they are eligible for. Much money is saved. Since the government already has an institution for checking taxes, the conditionality is merely moved to the end - they check not whether you get UBI, but just how much taxes you owe.