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Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) knowledge resource. Founder and CEO of ITSAfoundation.org.
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Nothing has been stolen. It's not how it works.
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Because he's been dishonest about his support for UBI.
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$0. Also, I'm not an asshole.
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This is absolutely immoral on multiple levels.
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We did something very close in 2021 with the enhanced child tax credit. No amendment is needed. We could just do a refundable tax credit for both adults and kids instead of just kids. It could replace the standard deduction. It's even doable via reconciliation.
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This will work and it will reduce the need for other changes and improve the ability to make still necessary and complementary changes. When people are stressed out and only focused on survival and unable to think beyond, that's what makes everything so difficult and that's what's eroding democracy.
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No he hasn't.
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If you base your opinions on evidence, look through the link I provided. And don't talk about giveaways if you don't apply that same logic to inheritance and passive income from interest and stocks, which all seems to work pretty damn well for the wealthy.
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That's not how to cost a UBI plan. Yes, everyone gets it, but not everyone receives a boost after taxes. It's the net cost that is the cost that matters.
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If you read the report, you'll see that the net tax increase is $3.6 billion and that pays for a $32 billion decrease in spending on poverty. It makes no sense to say you can't spend a bit more to save a lot more.
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Here's a thread full of evidence and a starter pack for people to utilize who are interested in UBI.
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If you want to help, fully endorse universal basic income and support pro-UBI orgs. Talk about how your taxes need to go up and that pilots have shown UBI to be a great idea for countless reasons. Some country will be first to do UBI, and it will spread from there. That's how to end poverty.
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I helped advise. There were only 4 existing programs that Yang proposed that UBI not stack with. They were TANF, SNAP, SSI, and WIC. Not healthcare. Not housing. Not Social Security. Not SSDI. And those programs would have remained in place. People would have only chosen whatever was better for them
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It's really best not to income-test the money. Just go universal and tax high income earners more.
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We really don't need any more experiments. We know it works.
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Universal Basic Income needs to be on this list.
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Thanks for including UBI! I agree. Economic populism is the way. Focus on billionaires as the enemy. Get people's basic needs met. Demonstrate to everyone that government can actually work to improve their lives.
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Passing Go already is a UBI.
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Gotta get those loyalists in.
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I noticed years ago that UBI has disproportionately strong support in the furry community. I've mentioned that before in the occasional podcast too. And I've always made a point of following anyone who expresses support for UBI by sharing something pro-UBI.
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The proposal isn't even universal and that's messed up too.
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👍
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We call it "fuck off money". We also call it "universal basic income".
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Yes.
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Yep. Loud and proud.
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He's such a craven asshole with everything. Like he can't even just be a dick by saying yeah I'll see you in court. Instead he also has to basically say she sucks.
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This just came from Canada to give you an idea. There the cost would be $3.6 billion more to spend $32 billion less on poverty to prevent everyone from falling below 75% of their poverty line. No increase in taxes. Just replacing tax subsidies. Here in the US, one option is $500/mo with a 7% surtax.
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There are many ways of going about it and I don't prefer any one proposal. It's like asking how to make a sandwich and I say it depends on the kind of sandwich but in general it involves stuff between two slices of bread and your reply is that I should know exactly what kind of sandwich we all get.