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Hypothetically let's say you raised taxes by a third across the board. Only people who's taxes went up by more than that 560 a month would be paying more than they received in UBI. So it's a little bit deceptive in terms of how much taxes would need to increase by. The tax increase and monthly UBI amount should be tuned together to have the desired redistributive effect.

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Good point. It would be interesting to see some studies on the expected tax increases to make this work in practice.

There would still be the potential problem of people choosing not to work (affecting tax revenue), but this is much harder to predict of course.

> There would still be the potential problem of people choosing not to work (affecting tax revenue), but this is much harder to predict of course.

I know a lot a people who don't have a job, but do a shit tons of work. Think of all those retired people building stuff for the family.

People who really don't want to do anything exist, some of them are mentally sick and need help, but I think every one want to do something (at some point in their life).

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