Guaranteed Minimum Income - Funding

Funding

Many different sources of funding have been suggested for a guaranteed minimum income:

  • Income taxes
  • Sales taxes
  • Capital gains taxes
  • Inheritance taxes
  • Wealth taxes, e.g. property tax
  • Luxury taxes
  • Elimination of current income support programs and tax deductions
  • Repayment of the grant at death or retirement
  • Land and natural resource taxes
  • Pollution taxes
  • Fees from government created monopolies (such as the broadcast spectrum and utilities)
  • Collective ownership
  • Universal stock ownership
  • A National Mutual Fund
  • Money creation or seignorage
  • Tariffs, the lottery, or sin taxes
  • Technology Taxes
  • Tobin tax

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