“..President Richard Nixon tried to introduce such a program for families in the 1960s. That effort was ultimately thwarted by Congress.”
Richard Nixon, communist? Who knew?
I did, for one.
Nixon proposed the Earned Income Tax Credit (E.I.T.C.), he wasn't around long enough to sign it into law, that dubious honor fell to Gerald Ford. Increased under every administration, without exception, since it was signed into law.
A negative income tax, taking from the rich and giving it to the ever present, "deserving poor".