I think I was unclear. When I said "UBI in this form" I was talking about what the article advocates for modern times. People get to use land for their own purposes, but they have to pay the population.
On the flip side, I wonder how much can be taxed? Is there a maximum? Currently, I work for the government through June.
Maybe I'm conflating UBI with increased taxes. The money has to come from somewhere, right? I'm in Southern California, where we enjoy some of the highest taxes and most expensive property in the world, so I'm a bit sensitive.
Also, he seems to correlate breathing air to being fed, which is wrong. There are plenty of places to get food for free, stuff that is about to expire gets donated. Just reach out to your local government or community college. It's a lot easier than hunting for it.
Last thing, here in California, about half the state is federal or state parkland and wilderness... The state itself blocks development and adds so much red tape to make housing much more expensive.
Yes, the part about acquiring funds is the same as what we already do.
UBI is an additional way for funds to be distributed.
> On the flip side, I wonder how much can be taxed? Is there a maximum? Currently, I work for the government through June.
That depends so much on the details of the system.
People on the lower end will gain more UBI than taxes increase. People on the upper end will get less UBI than taxes increase. The tipping point could be anywhere in a large range.
One version of UBI is simply a system where your income tax starts at a negative amount of dollars.
A tax, but where the tax money goes directly to everyone instead of being allocated by a government.
Secondly, if a government isn't both confiscating and redistributing the money, who are the group of robbers that you would designate doing this instead? UBI requires authoritarianism.
Please see the Alaska example. Alaska isn't authoritarian.
> it's completely authoritarian because there's nothing voluntary about it
Yeah okay. It's exactly as authoritarian as every other tax. I thought you were using normal person language; I'm not going to argue semantics.