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RE: The Progressive Case for Greatly Replacing the Welfare State with Unconditional Basic Income

in #basicincome7 years ago

Definitely. We need cap and trade and Pigouvian taxes, that will make the negative externalities be reflected in the final cost of products. That Noam Chomsky line is pretty much spot on: 'under existing capitalism, we have the socialization of costs and the privatization of profits.' We need to use taxation in order to keep corporations from being able to socialize costs.