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I first heard of this idea through HN and have discussed it with several people who I consider far right.

They are all concerned that this will ultimately end up as just another dole and the mother of all doles. They ask questions I don't have good answers to like:

1. This includes healthcare?

2. This includes disability?

When I say...well, I don't know about healthcare, its curtains.

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Healthcare costs are a problem because they can often be unpredictable and catastrophic. A UBI wouldn't fix that; you still need either an insurance or a single-payer system of some sort. The short version is that you're going to end up with risk pooling of some description either way.

Where the appeal comes for the right is that a UBI would let you eliminate our patchwork of other social assistance programs and all the headache, cost, and inefficiency of their associated bureaucracy.

The basic pitch isn't actually all that different from the flat tax ideas that are popular in conservative circles with the distinction that a UBI would disproportionately affect the wealthy rather than the poor.

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