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I'm saying that most economies are already paying the equivalent amount to a UBI, or close to it. Most counter-arguments including yours apparently is that UBI
by jiggawatts 3y ago
I'm saying that most economies are already paying the equivalent amount to a UBI, or close to it.
Most counter-arguments including yours apparently is that UBI is an entirely new tax, not a replacement for existing taxes. Sure, seen like that, it's magic money that falls from the sky. In practice, it's just a simplification of welfare.
- prepend 3y agoNo country is paying the amount proposed. If so, please provide. It should be simple by just showing entitlement amount divided by people. Countries pay substantial amounts but not to the level proposed by UBI amounts. There’s an argument for just simplifying payouts by leveling and ditching the “army of bureaucrats” and paying out the costs. But that has problems like reducing payout to people who need it and also not being anywhere near $10k or $20k per person. And these seem really obvious and glaring so are peculiar that they aren’t addressed. To make your claim show the arithmetic.