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"The Libertarian Case for UBI" https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/The%20Libertarian%20Case%20for%20a%20universal%20Basic%20Income.pdf
by red-iron-pine 3y ago
"The Libertarian Case for UBI"
https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents/The%20Libertarian%20Case%20for%20a%20universal%20Basic%20Income.pdf https://www.law.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/upload_documents...
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The basic idea is that the state is there to create and ensure a free market exists, and that outside of that creating organs to redistribute wealth is an inefficient hack.
Glenn Beck, proving that broken clocks can be right, said something about Obamacare to the effect of: "this will cost close to $3 million per US citizen. why not just give the citizen that money, and let them fly to Korea or Mexico? prices may go up but the free market is still a thing and consumers could just go to Europe instead. Cut out the middle man"