"Final Answer: Your GMI idea at the 200% level is improbable if funded solely by billionaire taxes. However, a GMI targeted at the 100% poverty line is completely financially viable if we actually enforced the tax code and enacted a wealth tax. We could end official poverty tomorrow; we just choose not to." πŸ€”
"When you empower a couple, you allow them to build a family. When you empower families, you allow them to build a community. When you guarantee a fundamental minimum income, you’re providing a foundation for those connections between us to grow and thrive, and that is the incredible power and value of community that we will unlock. That is what we’re investing in. Each other."
thoughts and prayers for regime change here in the USA
"We plan to bury politicians in data showing that this works. I don't know why the idea that simply giving money to those in most need and actually trusting them is considered so radical, I guess the specter of communism casts a long shadow... but the data really speaks for itself" https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1qvnq14/comment/o42fw5v/