My knee-jerk reaction was that this sounds like a terrible idea. It sounds like something that very wealthy people would lobby for, in order to make themselves

My knee-jerk reaction was that this sounds like a terrible idea. It sounds like something that very wealthy people would lobby for, in order to make themselves even wealthier and increase inequality. I had no idea that economists are almost unanimously in favor of this idea. (I listened to the NPR podcast mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13043744 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13043744). So now I'm not sure why the majority of these comments are so opposed. Do people here not trust experts in the field of economics, in the same way that many people don't trust the scientists who warn about climate change?