Alaska has been doing UBI for a long time.
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The major difference there is that the money in that case is paid *directly* to public coffers; no tax indirection.
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Put another way, LMK when FB, AAPL, and GOOG start dumping cash into the CA state coffers.
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(or start lobbying for higher state corp tax rates, particularly on overseas income)
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Sure, corps won't initiate this change. If it comes anytime soon in the US it will be from Democrats at the ballot box.
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Most Dem politicians too fearful of corp interests. They need ever-larger funding thanks to Citizens United! Bad dynamics = (
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Sure, IMO we need a constitutional amendment to block corp donations to parties, and limit contribution sizes. It'll be a long road
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In the meantime let's start calling out techies who automate away jobs for purely economic gains.
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It is as evil as ceos who moved manufacturing offshore. Sure they made $$ but the damage was profound and still haunts us
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I think that's sort of naive. The CEOs who didn't were punished by wallstreet; had no bulwark against free trade agreements.
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I saw this play out first-hand at RCA.
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