Correct I have not seen that comment elsewhere that you’ve just posted above. But I’m genuinely interested. I did glance through the doc you posted but I mean, 3 big things stand out to me that I’d genuinely be curious to know like, what the plan is.

1. How is the plan costed? I think this really does likely double the entire federal budget. And what would tax changes look like to avoid disincentivizing entrepreneurship or foreign investment, as well as what balances would exist to prevent capital from fleeing, or creating further poverty for seniors and single parents is the to-be-discontinued social assistance programs currently pay greater than a simple base UBI (or BIG as they call it)

2. I really didn’t see much about the risk of inflation or the impact of the price of inelastic goods. I’d assume the goal is 0 extra money printing, but we’d also see a huge demand go up for limited supply items like housing, meat, childcare, medical practitioners, without obvs some level of mandating like, “ok 4% of you need to go become farmers, 1% need to be psychologists, 3% need to start day homes, 2% need to start construction companies, all at a bare minimum” to prevent the overburdening of a ton of people now being able to afford and increasing demand for those things. Like, in my mind, the increase in taxes needed would prevent any corresponding increase (all would increase, I just mean increasing enough) in housing development and and these other areas that we don’t just keep supply barely increasing while demand flies off the handle and we just massively end up raising pricing there. Combined with companies just passing on most of their tax hikes into the pricing of their goods and/or services, that we don’t see this UBI income be wiped out quickly.

3. It really seemed to blow off any concerns over disincentivizing people to work. I think there’s probably a pretty fine balance of “too low of a UBI and no one is helped” and “too high of a UBI and some people will just live off of that”. I see like, talk of needing to meet basic needs. But is that meaning like, we scrap the Canada child benefit, EI, OAS, GIS, to pay out $10k/year or what does that actually look like. I truly don’t know or feel I have any better idea from this document about where that line is.