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Comment by Ed Dolan

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An UBI within striking distance of the poverty level, as commonly understood, would, conceptually, be affordable without aggressively attacking the fortunes of upper income Americans and without raising anyone’s effective marginal tax rates
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Implement a universal basic income
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Disputed The source URL does contain the thought and it is attributed to Ed Dolan (January 13, 2014), but the exact wording in the article begins, “My purpose here has simply been to show that a UBI …” and ends with the same affordability/tax-rate claim. The submitted version omits that opening without using [...], and also changes “a UBI” to “An UBI,” so it is not verbatim as given. ([economonitor.com](https://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/01/13/could-we-afford-a-universal-basic-income/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Unable to verify the exact wording of the quote against the source. The original source URL (http://www.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/01/13/could-we-afford-a-universal-basic-income/) returns HTTP 403, and I was also blocked (403) from accessing alternate/archived sources including archive.economonitor.com, basicincome.org, cato-unbound.org, medium.com/basic-income, niskanencenter.org, and dolanecon.blogspot.com. Web.archive.org is not accessible from this environment. Positive indicators (no red flags): - Author attribution is consistent: Ed Dolan is a well-documented UBI advocate (Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, Yale PhD economist) who has written extensively on UBI affordability, and the quote's substance (UBI "within striking distance of the poverty level" being affordable without aggressive taxation) matches his known position and writing style on the economic feasibility of UBI. - Vote alignment is correct: the "for" vote on statement 224 ("Implement a universal basic income") matches the pro-UBI sentiment expressed in the quote. - The URL structure (economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/01/13/could-we-afford-a-universal-basic-income/) plausibly corresponds to his real EconoMonitor column from that period. Year is 2014 (older than 2025), but I was unable to locate and verify a more recent Dolan quote with an accessible source due to the 403 blocks. Marking ai_unverifiable rather than verified because I could not positively confirm the exact wording appears in the cited source. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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