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  • Note that he is not sentenced for the burning itself exclusivley, but all the context of his actions. For example, in his “critique of islam” as he probably would put it, he generalize it to “arabs and africans” and he, according to the court, insulted a person present at his demo “based on skin color and ethnic background”. As I understand it, this was a big part of his demos; go to a segregated area, yell insults at non-white people to try and make them angry. This is also what seems he is, at least partly, sentenced for.
















  • Sure, but their’s is not flat

    individuals earning below a set threshold receive payments instead of paying taxes

    So it is not universal. It is not UBI. The difference it not billionaires but the middle class. The upper middle class may not need a UBI, but if you give it to them, they would be inclined to vote to keep it. If you only give a non-universal/progressive negative-tax/income, the middle class would be inclined to vote to vote to keep UBI way below “basic”. Like tax breaks offered to the middle class, I hate them, but they are basically impossible to reverse because they are so popular. A UBI and whatever you want to call this is very different policies.