Well said...
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A mere $1,000 monthly payment to every American carries a price tag of roughly $4 trillion per year, equivalent to half the entire federal budget. There is no honest path to that revenue that does not involve a permanent and dramatic expansion of state power, federal taxation, and central economic planning. Once established, no such program has ever shrunk. UBI is not a bridge; it is a foundation, and the building that gets erected on top of it is bigger government in perpetuity. And it’s not like other government programs will be shut down to make up for the budget hole that UBI creates. It just never works that way.
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https://www.dossier.today/p/preemptive-ubi-is-the-wrong-answer
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