Sure, there are extreme levels of poverty where you have to scrounge for spare change just to get one meal per day. Most people would argue that's what existin

Sure, there are extreme levels of poverty where you have to scrounge for spare change just to get one meal per day. Most people would argue that's what existing welfare and unemployment programs should be tuned to better solve. UBI goes further than those programs, but how many times have you driven past a trailer park or dilapidated rural home or inner city building with plywood on the windows and see a new Silverado or CTS parked outside? There are a lot of people for whom living on credit is already the norm. Giving them additional cash per month isn't going to fix the fact that the US as a whole is already conditioned to buy everything with debt.