Everyone who's getting excited about UBI should look into the Fair Tax plan. A portion of that plan has always essentially been UBI.
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Consider the Alaska permanent fund payments--these seem to be working out ok. Promoting income for everyone sufficient to live on is a mistake, but I think it's quite reasonable to have some dividend for citizenship. Just make sure it doesn't make the dysgenics worse.
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And of course if you start replacing other welfare policies with it, you might actually end up with a substantially more efficient system.
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