@RoboRev @scottsantens I'm not an economist, just an educational researcher/statistician, but this article seems to suggest that if the UBI is fully funded by taxes, the distribution of income becomes more compressed around the "middle" (doesn't specify mean, median, etc) https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3920748 by raising the income of the lowest and reducing the income of the highest. This could result in inflated costs on goods and services in the middle range, but not at the lowest level, as there would be less demand there. If everyone could afford at least rice and beans and a studio apartment, and knew that there was simply no way they or their kids could be turned out to the street and left to starve, we might even see less inflationary pressure, since there is no actual shortage of most basic goods (except housing, but that isn't evenly distributed geographically). #UBI