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France has UBI since 1981 and it’s called RMI. We still have it. Let’s stop with this “large scale experiment”, we already have the results.

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RMI has been replaced with RSA, which is a form of negative income tax -- something championed by Milton Friedman and others of the Chicago school. It's not UBI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_de_solidarité_active

High unemployment, stagnant economy and frequent strikes?

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