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Comment by hedora

With UBI and a flat tax, you end up paying:

tax_rate * income - ubi

to the government. Tax rate has to go up for UBI to be revenue neutral. So, it is not inflationary. It just provides safety net for low income people.

Note that this formula would greatly simplify the tax code (especially if income included capital gains and maybe excluded donations), and is also actually progressive (your effective tax rate increases monotonically with income), unlike the current US system.

parent hedora 1 year ago

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