that UBI would require impossible tax increases and also that NIT would be fine.
Intuitively I had thought of the UBI and NIT as very similar except that the UBI seeks to be large enough to be a workable living income, whereas a NIT can be any positive amount (or negative, depending on which way you look at it). So conversely the tax change required to fund it need not be large -- it just depends on how ambitious you want to be.
I assume you are looking at the $50-100 trillion of theoretically seizable wealth in the United States. Unfortunately, not much of that is fungible due to the lack of buyers in that scenario.
UBI and Negative Income Tax are two terms for the same thing. Well, according to Wikipedia, NIT is one implementation of UBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax). I suppose that's fair, but it's the most obvious implementation.
Either can be large or small; that's not part of the definition.
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Intuitively I had thought of the UBI and NIT as very similar except that the UBI seeks to be large enough to be a workable living income, whereas a NIT can be any positive amount (or negative, depending on which way you look at it). So conversely the tax change required to fund it need not be large -- it just depends on how ambitious you want to be.
This is part of the circle of miscommunication when discussing UBI. It goes like this:
Q. The tax rate would be too high.
A. Not if UBI is small.
Q. Small amounts won’t make a difference.
A. That’s why it needs to be enough to live on.
Q. Then the tax rate...
the problem is people talk about paying for it through income tax and not a wealth tax.
If you look at wealth distribution, you look at how to slice enough off the top end to cover the bottom end.
I assume you are looking at the $50-100 trillion of theoretically seizable wealth in the United States. Unfortunately, not much of that is fungible due to the lack of buyers in that scenario.
UBI and Negative Income Tax are two terms for the same thing. Well, according to Wikipedia, NIT is one implementation of UBI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax). I suppose that's fair, but it's the most obvious implementation.
Either can be large or small; that's not part of the definition.