[dgacmu]

It's all the same. Otherwise, you're going to increase taxes even more for people making more than the UBI to compensate. This is simply pushing numbers around on the page - either you're getting the UBI and paying it all back in taxes, or you're not getting the UBI and not paying it back in taxes.

[gozur88]

No, it's not the same, because the big benefit of UBI is you don't have to pay a huge gaggle of bureaucrats to verify this person gets benefits and that person doesn't.

[dllthomas]

> Otherwise, you're going to increase taxes even more for people making more than the UBI to compensate.

There are funding options other than income tax.