Comment by jiggawatts

Comment by jiggawatts a day ago

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There is no "extra" payment with UBI, it's just an altering of the tax code so that it starts at a negative value instead of at zero. The slope is steeper to compensate. The total tax and the total income remain unchanged.

Note that UBI is effectively "everyone gets extra income" for the poorest parts of society, so things only poor people buy will get some inflationary effect.