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I'd be very happy to replace unemployment benefit/welfare with this - and then to remove the income tax allowance, so that people pay income tax on everything they have over it.

This instantly removes the "benefit trap" whereby earning can make you worse off.

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I agree with you and with the idea of unconditional basic income, but I would only support it if means tested welfare were completely eliminated and the basic income amount were inflation indexed to a broad spectrum of consumer goods.

I'd settle for indexing it to median salary. Say at 24% or 33% of it.

I'd say to index it to GDP.

It also instantly removes the concept of personal responsibility, or any incentive to try.

Communism failed. Remember?

Why bother getting a job when you can just vote in whichever party is going to raise the 'basic income' the most?

Why bother, as a political party, with having good solid policies that will benefit everyone, when you can just bribe the electorate with money, by promising to raise the 'basic income' paid for by future debt!

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