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because in the scheme described the effective tax on your income is positive (the more you earn, the more is transferred away) as opposed to negative (the more
by whimsicalism 2y ago
because in the scheme described the effective tax on your income is positive (the more you earn, the more is transferred away) as opposed to negative (the more you earn the more is transferred to you).
- TeaBrain 2y agoWhat you are describing might intuitively sound like what a negative income tax should mean, had you never heard of a negative income tax before, but that is not what a negative income tax is. A negative income tax, which is a name for a type of benefit system, does not mean that people are literally negatively taxed, regardless of their income.
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- whimsicalism 2y agoeitc is a prototypical negative income tax and gives you more money for each dollar of added income up to a point. so… exactly what i’m describing?
- TeaBrain 2y agoThis is exactly the misconception the other person I replied to had.