[clay_to_n]

Yup. In my guess, UBI is more overhead to run since there are literally more line items on people's tax documents (there's the UBI as well as the progressive tax that is used to pay for it).

But UBI's have the perceived simplicity of "I always get this", which might help encourage more people to pay in, even though the higher earners are losing money.

[munk-a]

Alternatively we can use UBI to remove special income grants, if UBI is sufficient for a modest survival we might be able to drop social security and the non-medical portions of government disability payments in favor of a flat income grant. This would reduce the bureaucracy involved in these systems.

[Turing_Machine]

Why would there be an additional line item if everyone gets the same UBI? That amount could just be built into the tax tables, right?