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Venom Snake posted:almost every single economist worth a drat thinks UBI would be a huge boon for the economy you moron
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rudatron posted:ubi doesn't lead to inflation, that's just bullshit. Well the reason folks say that is we have a simultaneous budget/revenue problem here in the U.S. that'd necessitate debt which would in turn lead to inflation. But if we fixed our tax brackets, closed our investment loopholes, and stopped spending the highest percentage in the world of our enormous budget on useless defense it'd be fine.
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Not a Step posted:I had an economics professor who explained it like this: If you feel the major determining factor of success in life is inherited wealth and station then your policies are likely to focus on redistribution with an eye towards equality of outcomes. If you believe the major determining factor of success is personal initiative then your policies are likely to focus on encouraging work and removing obstacles to success (regulations, taxation, etc), with an eye towards equality of opportunity. He said this gave a potentially charitable explanation of Republican rhetoric that helped him sleep at night: They want to dismantle the social safety net not because they are ravening monsters who hate the poor and cannot be stopped, but because they genuinely think its the best way to encourage individual effort and greater success. This means they are still humans who can be reached and talked with. The hypothetical Republican view has no answer to the fact that social mobility is strongly correlated with the quality of a place's welfare state though.
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May 7, 2017 07:43
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Agnostalgia posted:eh for every one of those there's three who became authoritarian shitheads post service. Yeah I had a lot of friends or acquaintances who went into the military and there were only two who weren't affected mentally in a bad way. One was affected physically instead, and the other had already been insane since he was a kid.
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May 21, 2017 16:44
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Bulgogi Hoagie posted:ubi is starting to sound a lot like communism - idyllic, won't actually work out as planned, and probably unworkable You thought that about it from the beginning.
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May 21, 2017 23:32
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Barbe Rouge posted:probably not: 
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Lindsey O. Graham posted:i raised the issue of inflation, which is the market response to increased consumption, whether through increased employment or income, and no one in this thread has solid reasoning behind why that won't happen UBI replacing jobs lost to automation wouldn't raise consumption.
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if we think that matters in the age of trump