This reply is ambiguous. Are your referring to Falkvinge’s or Milton’s arguments?
Anyway, I find replies of the kind “someone else has already made this point better, duh” pointless and annoying. If they’d include a pointer to the earlier discussion, that’d be useful. But otherwise it’s just saying “I’m better than you because I happened to hear about this subject earlier than you did, hah!”.
I don’t find it pointless and annoying at all if the person in question actually made the point in a much more thorough way. playing the non-strongest version of arguments off against each other is a waste of everyone’s time.
Google negative income tax and read the article...
Naz I think you are a little off though. the negative income tax is an implementation of a few possible implementations of a basic income system. Friedman liked it because it was better then normal welfair or the progressive tax we have. He wanted a flat tax. He did not particuly want the NIT, he wanted less welfair overhead and a flat tax.
If you do not have an income tax you can not use a negative income tax to implement a basic income.
Falkvinge is coming from the other direction. He is saying we will be forced to have a flat tax (VAT) because of bitcoin and that in order to still have wellfair we will need to implement a basic income, his citizens income.
I’m not familiar with Milton Friedman’s arguments, but were they really based on the premise of an anonymous currency?
the arguments for basic income aren’t directly related.
This reply is ambiguous. Are your referring to Falkvinge’s or Milton’s arguments?
Anyway, I find replies of the kind “someone else has already made this point better, duh” pointless and annoying. If they’d include a pointer to the earlier discussion, that’d be useful. But otherwise it’s just saying “I’m better than you because I happened to hear about this subject earlier than you did, hah!”.
I don’t find it pointless and annoying at all if the person in question actually made the point in a much more thorough way. playing the non-strongest version of arguments off against each other is a waste of everyone’s time.
The problem is not including a link to said arguments.
Google negative income tax and read the article...
Naz I think you are a little off though. the negative income tax is an implementation of a few possible implementations of a basic income system. Friedman liked it because it was better then normal welfair or the progressive tax we have. He wanted a flat tax. He did not particuly want the NIT, he wanted less welfair overhead and a flat tax.
If you do not have an income tax you can not use a negative income tax to implement a basic income.
Falkvinge is coming from the other direction. He is saying we will be forced to have a flat tax (VAT) because of bitcoin and that in order to still have wellfair we will need to implement a basic income, his citizens income.
It is all crazy talk though.