It's a dangerous slippery slope. And you are not providing all people. You are taking from some to give to some others, there's not such thing as a free lunch.

It's a dangerous slippery slope. And you are not providing all people. You are taking from some to give to some others, there's not such thing as a free lunch. And the most probable course is that you get indebted today to pay in the future (i.e. our descendants are going to pay our current UBI), and not that the rich are going to give to the poor. One thing is to say that in this dire situation you opt to give an UBI to everyone, and as soon as the emergency is revoked so is the UBI and all extreme measures. Another thing is to pass the UBI and "if in the long term the people using democratic means" can get rid of it. Just bind the UBI to the Alarm state, so that when the last ends, the former is automatically scrapped (and if anything, approved through democratic means and in a more sane environment). I'm tired of things that are passed through the backdoor in difficult times, and then we can never ever again get rid of it. In Spain, for example, the "Ley Mordaza" is here to stay or even get worse. By "democratic means" the people voted PSOE+Podemos that promised to get rid of it, and here we are debating to make it even worse... ⸮for a good reason, of course⸮