{"id":5676,"date":"2026-06-10T08:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/?p=5676"},"modified":"2026-06-10T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:45:41","slug":"how-to-pay-for-ubi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/06\/10\/how-to-pay-for-ubi\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Pay for UBI?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scott Santens has a good idea when he says &#8220;Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It&#8221; (ie by requiring an annual dilution rate in favor of the UBI distribution). But I suspect that the number of people who would be above the cutoff for a negative net effect is higher if the analysis includes those with retirement income coming from large group pension funds.<br \/>And I also think that we should not neglect the option of taxing all wealth transfers (including inheritances and gifts) as income in the year received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scottsantens.substack.com\/p\/how-to-pay-for-ubi-stock-dilution-tax\/comments\">(2) Comments &#8211; How Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income? Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Santens has a good idea when he says &#8220;Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It&#8221; (ie by requiring an annual dilution rate in favor of the UBI distribution). But I suspect that the number of people who would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2026\/06\/10\/how-to-pay-for-ubi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5678,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5676\/revisions\/5678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}