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I haven't listened to those lately, but I don't recall them calling for a UBI. Didn't they redistribute it back to the carbon taxpayers?
by hcurtiss 6y ago
I haven't listened to those lately, but I don't recall them calling for a UBI. Didn't they redistribute it back to the carbon taxpayers?
- alex_young 6y agoYeah, the carbon tax is just equally distributed back to everyone. Just like UBI.
- hcurtiss 6y agoAs I recall, if you paid more carbon tax you got more back. That is not, I think, how UBI is supposed to work (e.g., those paying more taxes don't get a higher UBI).
- alex_young 6y agoIf you received a refund in the same ballpark as you were taxed there would be no point to it right?
- Ericson2314 6y agoI really hope you recall incorrectly, because that indeed makes 0 sense except as the result of a farcical political system.
- skosch 6y agoEveryone gets back the same amount. You can't even know how much carbon tax you paid, because it's levied at the source. It's a redistribution scheme at the expense of polluters.