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Universal basic income is not compatible with open borders. This is the main reason the left struggles with promoting it.

• anticensor 6y ago
  Why? Can you not just check the residency and citizenship status every few months? You already collect these for other purposes.
  • Hermel 6y ago
    If you give every resident a nice check every month (the universal basic income) and have open borders, your country will soon be overcrowded with immigrants. And if you give the universal basic income to citizens only, it it not universal any more.
    • anticensor 6y ago
      There is an easy compromise that does not require means testing: *Citizens-by-birth (regardless of whether it is acquired territorially or by blood-line) are eligible past majority age, as long as they reside in the country (short interruptions up to a year may be considered acceptable for this purpose) *Naturalised people and immigrant residents become eligible past residency of equal length to majority age, subject to the rule above