Yes, he and Daniel P. Moynihan pushed the guaranteed annual income plan.
Instead of a patchwork of aid programs, it would be a basic income for everyone.
Of course, welfare essentially does that already. The idea of the GAI was to take the bureaucracy out of the equation.
But no one would starve. Allegedly.
But in modern America, with massive legal and illegal immigration, where would it stop?
The Indian government would simply ship a few hundred million of their hungriest Dalits to join the other 200 million Central and South Americans here, all feeding on borrowed money.
You’re absolutely correct in your assessment of GAI. I’m not advocating it. I only mentioned it because many don’t know that Nixon proposed it.