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EITC for All: A UBI Compromise Proposal
The author proposes an expansion of the EITC in order to capture many of the benefits inherent in a basic income, while avoiding some of the usual points of contention and political disagreement.
2019
Academic Paper
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A universal earned income tax credit (refundable up to the first $10,000 on income) would cost roughly $1.3 trillion per year.
Expanding and universalizing the EITC could provide a bipartisan, incremental step forward.
authors
Benjamin M. Leff
reports
Basic Income
tags
Earned Income Tax Credit
Implementation
Universalism
Welfare
Negative Income Tax (NIT)
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