You make accepting UBI optional, so if the $1,000 per month or existing services is better for your situation then you get to decide - not the government; e.g. maybe you have 6 kids and food stamps etc you get is way better than the $1,000/month. This way there is also a statistics dashboard that we can see who's choosing what and optimize more precisely.
You force corporations to pay, to not be able to avoid taxes - using a VAT that's customizable so things like diapers have say 0% tax vs. buying ads on Facebook has 80% tax. The nuanced ability to lever different goods and services allows tax to be fine-tuned to cover all costs until the floor quality of life is covered/existing for all.
We can supply everything 90%+ of what people need through automation, the remaining 10% or less will be the engineers and system and machine designers and maintainers - while the 90%+ can focus self-improvement/education, family/community and being creative/artistic etc.
>You force corporations to pay, to not be able to avoid taxes
Economic maxim: "Corporations don't pay taxes, people pay taxes". This means when you think corporation tax is somehow free, you ignore that comes directly from stock prices and wages, i.e., direct income and pensions.
>you get to decide
Historical evidence shows that directed tax cuts and targets are much better multipliers of using tax revenues. Your method has been demonstrated to costing more for the same public outcomes, which is why there are so many directed tax cuts and directed tax spends. They are simply more efficient.
Simply put forth an estimate of what you think various groups need to pay to get what you think people will get with UBI. Once you try to put actual numbers to things, you soon realize it's simply not possible without damaging a lot of vulnerable people.
>We can supply everything 90%+ of what people need through automation
No, we cannot. Unless people take a drastic quality of life cut, and even then, we cannot.
You force corporations to pay, to not be able to avoid taxes - using a VAT that's customizable so things like diapers have say 0% tax vs. buying ads on Facebook has 80% tax. The nuanced ability to lever different goods and services allows tax to be fine-tuned to cover all costs until the floor quality of life is covered/existing for all.
We can supply everything 90%+ of what people need through automation, the remaining 10% or less will be the engineers and system and machine designers and maintainers - while the 90%+ can focus self-improvement/education, family/community and being creative/artistic etc.