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by greedo 29 days ago
Yes, getting them to pay "something" is a good goal, but if it hurts people who are financially vulnerable is non-optimal.
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We already know how to solve that one though. You now have corporations and billionaires actually paying the consumption tax along with everyone else, so you take that money and use it for a UBI, which causes the effective rates on lower income people to be much lower or even negative even though everyone is still paying a uniform marginal rate.