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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Long term vs. short term.
I fight this battle mentally every day because wrong on former includes lost compounding interest/opportunity, wrong on latter is wrong and no consolation.
Voting what is good for more people and voting voting what benefits you in this instance dovetail. That’s not infrequent. But you know that already.
Why do you think I like UBI? It’s a growth machine that’s also being just decent with people.
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UBI was what Lyndon Johnson probably would have done if he had another term. It was, as he put it, eliminating poverty with the stroke of a pen. Clinton worked hard to distance himself from the concept, and his "welfare reform" was really the exact antithesis. It's interesting to see it coming back into style. Progressive taxation was always a waystation to UBI, and maybe with folks like Ryan singlemindedly focused on making taxation regressive (and this last bill was a huge win for regressive taxation) its time for UBI to be back on the table.
