This country needs to offer a minimal viable income to all citizens. I'm sure nearly everyone will blast me for how bad this will be and for the inflation

This country needs to offer a minimal viable income to all citizens. I'm sure nearly everyone will blast me for how bad this will be and for the inflation that'll surely happen but every study I've seen shows that giving people relatively small amounts of money improves every aspect of their lives. I have followed some of the Universal/Unconditional Basic Income discussions here on HN. After all is said and done, I think proponents of UBI will find a lot less opposition if this is framed in the context of the progressive taxation debate. In the context of how the ancestrally wealthy pay so little. In the context of how even the most innovative upstarts & the least innovative & moribund mega corporations alike, dodge taxes using shelters abroad. The point is this: middle income families - the few that are left in this country - will not be persuaded so easily to give yet more of their hard earned monies away to those who they see as perennially living on the dole - the welfare dependent & the societal deadbeats. Yes, they will blame the already under-privileged & chronically poor. Not their tax-evading ( even negative tax billing ) corporate overlords. That's the way it has been for decades. It won't change unless the thought makers find fresh ways to help the middle and low income families see the disparity in taxation. Middle income & low income families have to be weaned away from voting against their own self-interests.