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Universal Basic Income advocates want to give everyone $1k a month. - your boss will use this as an excuse to cut your salary. - your landlord will use this as an excuse to raise your rent. - your congressmen will use this as an excuse to slash benefits and lower minimum wage.
It isn't a coincidence that billionaires love this plan. Workers will still have to work for them in order to live, and pay their landlords for shelter. Property values will go up. Business costs will go down. Workers will not be empowered.
The plan will cost three trillion, almost the entire federal budget, including social security and medicare. Every benefit that aids the poor will have to go, or your taxes will have to double. The poorest people who need the most help will end up worse off.
Every year Americans pay half a trillion in rent. Why not start with universal free public housing? Because it harms wealthy property owners. UBI advocates want a future where the rich remain in charge forever and the poor get the scraps.
Or: 1. Your boss will have to up your hourly rate to make work worth your while 2. Your landlord will also have an extra $1k a month to spend 3. Who's going to chose to work 60 hours a week for minimum wage when you have $1k UBI?
Because rent will now cost $1k+ a month, leaving you with nothing unless you work. Without changing property relations to something democratic, people without property will always have to work for those who have it in order to live, end of story.
-UBI should be equal to a living wage when it happens -UBI should be pegged to inflation or another metric of the cost of living -UBI should also come behind higher taxes for the wealthiest 1-5% -UBI should come after business are taxed appropriately
additionally, it should not preclude medicare, which should be expanded to include everyone. it should also not preclude a minimum wage (which, combined with UBI, could be smaller).
Similarly, employers use the existence of programs like SNAP and Medicaid as an excuse to underpay employees. (Which doesn’t mean these programs shouldn’t exist!) Is there any way to actually help people make ends meet? 
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Minimum wage advocates want to give everyone $15 an hour - your boss will use this as an excuse to cut your salary (for most people) - your landlord will use this as an excuse to raise your rent - your congressman will use this as an excuse to slash benefits and not have UBI.
UBI is not perfect. It is a strictly better idea than raising the minimum wage when some jobs won't support that wage. Both are bandaid temporary fixes. Unions and nationalized land are the answer.
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