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by notatoad 2309 days ago
Isn't this a core tenet of all UBI proposals - it's an alternative to other aid programs, not a supplement to it. That's the only way it can possibly be economical.

So either they kill off medi-cal, calfresh, and calworks, or they keep them around but disallow any "double-dipping". It seems like they've chosen the politically safer option of not killing the competing aid programs completely.

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> Isn't this a core tenet of all UBI proposals - it's an alternative to other aid programs, not a supplement to it.

It's a core tenet to some UBI proposals. I'm aware of proposals that are supplemental to, and not replacements of, other benefits.