Anyone remember Richard Nixon who proposed a guaranteed income plan in the 1970s?
Nope, that doesn't ring a bell.
Nixon was pretty liberal
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.
Nothing's really changed in the debate in 45 years.
Other then the abject failure of the entire Great Society welfare programs.