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Using a regressive tax to fund a UBI makes it....not regressive. What's evil is the rich people distorting this plain mathematics.

Was the French gas tax redistributed such that below x (where x > 50%) percentile consumers would come out ahead? The Canadian carbon dividend is the ideal example.



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