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Old 08-11-2021, 02:56 PM   #223
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Originally Posted by blankall View Post
For those promoting UBI, a couple of questions about payment for such a program:

1. Where is the money to pay for UBI coming from? Which portion of the public sector funds are getting slashed.

2. Is the answer simply to tax the rich more to pay for the UBI? If this is the plan, we're going to have to dig fairly deep in to the middle class to pay for this.
All of them.

No more EI, no more disability, no more AISH, you might even have to can OAS and GIS and add administrative fees for Health Care.

You get rid of all of it. Its a hugely expensive proposition.

The Government is giving you free money to live on. You're on your own now.
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