[galaxyLogic]

Governments already provide "free income" in the form of free or subsidized services.

Say you have a fire-department even though you personally might not be paying anything for it because you are so poor that you don't pay any taxes. You have police protecting you and the army. You have free primary school at least.

So I think the question is, would it help for the government to provide more, or less, or the same amount of free services as it does currently?

Would it "increase prices" if healthcare was free? Not necessarily I think. At least not the price of healthcare. Government would be in a much better position to negotiate drug-prices with pharmaceutical companies, than individuals are.

[_heimdall]

If you have a government that runs a balanced budget, those services aren't free.

> Would it "increase prices" if healthcare was free?

That depends, who's ultimately footing the bill? If its paid for with taxes on businesses, yes most of that would be passed on to consumers in the form of price increases. If its paid for by consumer taxes, ultimately you will find consumers demanding higher wages and prices would again go up. If its paid for with tariffs, well we'll fins out soon but prices should go up there as well.

[galaxyLogic]

> those services aren't free.

They are free for poor people. For instance, basic education must be free, so we can have a productive work-force that can read and write and pay taxes in the future, which will make us even richer.