Some people are being given thousands of dollars with no strings attached in universal basic income trials. They mostly spend the cash wisely. - eviltoast
A common question about universal basic income, or UBI, is how people spend the money, but early trials are showing promising results.
  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    6 months ago

    now let’s say you heavily tax gambling at a state level. Suddenly you get more tax kickback from that UBI even though nothing particularly effective was done with it.

    I mean, theoretically, gambling itself, as a tax revenue source is actually pretty good. It’s money going to a good cause, even though technically wasted.