“...the government will have to steal that money from someone who actually had to work and sweat for it.”
Will have to steal the money to give to worthless slime? They already do that today!
“Bread and Circuses.” The fall of Rome and the fall of America.
That is true. So true. But the government uses various faux programs, specious qualifications and general subterfuge to do it.
What this socialist proposes is to drop all pretense and just get right to it and admit to their idea money is a fundamental right of everyone - in their eyes ‘everyone’ is a Democrat.
I can hear Nancy Pelosi now; the basic income does not provide a dignified existence so we must supplement it with this and that program (targeted, of course). The now unemployed welfare state bureacracy would certainly demand a program in consideration of their intergenerational service. The Democrats will oblige as they naturally seek new opportunities for graft. The rent seekers will have full-time work as they pursue ‘fairness’.