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UBI is no less 'fantasy' than the NHS was or universal education was.
UBI wouldn't replace social security. You maintain housing and health/disability payments, plus UBI.
Higher earners would pay back through adjusting tax and could pay more in tax on some models.
UBI is no less 'fantasy' than the NHS was or universal education was.
UBI wouldn't replace social security. You maintain housing and health/disability payments, plus UBI.
Higher earners would pay back through adjusting tax and could pay more in tax on some models.
The "we can't afford it" narrative - especially from some quarters - is damaging. Those same claims are levelled at housing benefit.
We can't afford not to do a UBI and increase portable social security payments, and increase taxation, and close loopholes, and increase public.
We can't afford not to do a UBI and increase portable social security payments, and increase taxation, and close loopholes, and increase public.
Yes, there are middle income earners who'd also benefit at broadly similar levels to those on lower incomes.
But that security and financial resilience benefits us all.
Isn't that what liberalism is about?
But that security and financial resilience benefits us all.
Isn't that what liberalism is about?
Just read the report from @CompassOffice? 
It sets out the tax adjuments, the weekly payments, the impact on poverty/Gini coefficient, the differential impact on income groups with higher income earners actually marginally less well off after tax adjuments.
It sets out the tax adjuments, the weekly payments, the impact on poverty/Gini coefficient, the differential impact on income groups with higher income earners actually marginally less well off after tax adjuments.
I'll even link it 
https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/universal-basic-income-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
https://www.compassonline.org.uk/publications/universal-basic-income-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/
Yes scrap work capability assessments, sort DWP out, scrap the two child limit and benefit cap, increase social security payments, build more social housing, increase housing benefit.
But let's do that plus a basic income. We'll all be stronger if we all have an income floor.
But let's do that plus a basic income. We'll all be stronger if we all have an income floor.
