Funny enough, but libertarian leaning Charles Murray had this same idea. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/making-sense/libertarian-charles-murray-the-welfare-state-has-denuded-our-civic-culture/
He makes an interesting argument, and I get where he is coming from. Still disagree with it..
Milton Friedman and Richard Nixon were both proponents of a guaranteed minimum income, too.