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Ultimately, the rich will find a way to profit from a basic income, to the detriment of the poor, thanks to the distributional effects of different types of state financing. It would be folly to call for a UBI without a detailed and sophisticated calculation of the distributive effects of its financing.
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Heiner Flassbeck, Makroskop Mediengesellschaft mbH, Wiesbaden, Germany.
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Flassbeck, H. Universal Basic Income Financing and Income Distribution — The Questions Left Unanswered by Proponents. Intereconomics 52, 80–83 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0650-2
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-017-0650-2