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by throw0101a 2638 days ago
> Luckily, [[new research]] on a program in Mexico gives us a real-world test case for this idea. And it strongly suggests that giving out cash doesn’t cause inflation — or if it does, the effects are very, very mild.

* https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/9/20/16256240/m...

> If, however, you funded a UBI with graduated taxation, you would effectively be redistributing wealth from the wealthiest to the population in general. Depending on the tax code, people somewhere in the middle of the scale would receive about the same amount in UBI as they pay in tax increases.

* https://www.quora.com/Wont-a-universal-basic-income-raise-in...

For the second article, he notes that if UBI is done via printing money, then it could.