> do so a lot more cost effectively than UBI since you wouldn’t be guaranteeing payments to people who don’t need them One of the arguments for UBI is that, as

> do so a lot more cost effectively than UBI since you wouldn’t be guaranteeing payments to people who don’t need them One of the arguments for UBI is that, as it makes no effort whatsoever to exclude anyone, it is enormously simpler than the alternatives, both in terms of people reasoning about their taxes and in terms of implementing it. Of course, it would be UBI + lots of other tax codes, but that's meant to be part of the point.