UBI can be thought of as a negative income tax below a certain income level, beyond which you switch to a positive income tax.
A UBI has some advantages over the current system, It’s simpler. The current system of the welfare state dealing with poor and underprivileged is a mess of subsidized services/in kind benefits/conditional transfers etc. This has the additional benefit of minimizing bloated bureaucracies surrounding these programs (efficiency)
It’s not paternal, poor people are given the freedom to do what they want with the money they receive (self agency) Welfare has positive externalities (eg. both person […]
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