> Obviously it has to be limited to citizens because those are the people paying for it via taxes. This is so delusionally, obviously false it fatally undermin

> Obviously it has to be limited to citizens because those are the people paying for it via taxes. This is so delusionally, obviously false it fatally undermines your argument. A huge number of non-citizens pay taxes!!! Where do you get the idea that non-citizens don't pay taxes! Shakes head despairingly at the ignorance Your argument would work if you said UBI must be limited to people on $X or higher salary, or who have been on such a salary. Because people who have only ever earned <$X do not pay taxes. But as you know, that is not the UBI idea. It is advocated on the basis of a principle, of basic safety, simplicity and dignity, combined with a working theory that it is more affordable than people tend to assume because of the net system-wide benefits. Rather like the USA's constitution itself.