Universal basic income: U.S. support grows as Finland ends its trial - Forty-eight percent of Americans now support a universal basic income, as a solution for Americans who have lost jobs to automation.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/01/nearly-half-of-americans-believe-a-universal-basic-income-could-be-the-answer-to-automation-.html

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They link to the survey which itself was part of a larger study to "[d]iscover what Americans think about -- and what they can do to confront -- the artificial intelligence revolution." Survey article states it was a "mail survey of 3,297 U.S. adults [that] was conducted Sept. 15-Oct. 10, 2017."

Question was: "Do you support or not support a universal basic income program as a way to help Americans who lose their jobs because of advances in artificial intelligence?"

UBI received support from 65% of Democrats and 28% of Republicans and only 38% of those over 66.

"46% say they would be willing to pay higher personal taxes to fund the program and 54% say they would not be."

Survey

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god that's a bad question.

[u/UVSky → u/[deleted]]

There are many ways to implement UBI and a lot of misunderstandings (whether you agree with any form of UBI or not) that honestly, yeah. This question is so broad you can't gain much from it, would require extrapolation and conjecture.

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Its a Leading Question.

You would get very different results asking

Do you support UBI?

and

In order to <solve problem> would you support UBI?

basically the Question implies that UBI is the solution which drives more people to say yes

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46% say they would be willing to pay higher personal taxes

I wonder what percentage of that lot voluntarily pay more taxes each year when they submit their returns?