Sobre o financiamento de um RBI em Portugal.

Starting from a conception of ubi that does not regard it as a replacement for the Welfare State, this paper sheds some light on the financing and distributional impact of a ubi in Portugal. It provides a quantitative analysis of a flat tax vs. progressive nominal taxes as financing models. I argue that a flat tax proposal is directly opposed to the politico-economical views underlying a left-wing ubi conceived as an instrument to address economic inequalities. Finally, I argue that the ubi is in dire need of conceptual clarification: it should be posited merely as a fundamental right in abstracto. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]