Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income
> <i>"How would we pay for it? We could start by getting corporations to pay their taxes."</i><p>I don't know why people keep harping on corporate taxes. If anything, taxing corporations is <i>regressive</i> -- the taxes ultimately get passed on to consumers through higher product prices, regardless of their income levels.<p>Taxing corporations doesn't produce magic money -- it's still taxing people in the end, but it's the consumers. Far better is higher tax rates on investments, and higher taxes on the rich. We should be taxing the <i>people</i> who <i>own</i> the corporations, or are paid huge salaries by them -- that is, if you believe in progressive taxation.