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by AnthonyMouse 3475 days ago
> There could be a system where the benefits are lowered in proportion to the income earned from jobs

The thing you are referring to is called taxes. The more money you make the more taxes you pay and there comes a point that you're paying more in taxes than the amount of the basic income.

Phase outs are a pure scam. Their purpose is to conceal imposing higher marginal rates on low and middle income people so that higher income people can pay lower rates.

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What's wrong with equality? Everyone pays the same rate.
That is in fact the thing that a UBI allows you to do without compromising progressivity.