Not absurd at all and it doesn't need to be framed as a handout either. The US should have a single land tax and every American should be paid a citizen's divi

Not absurd at all and it doesn't need to be framed as a handout either. The US should have a single land tax and every American should be paid a citizen's dividend out of that. A "UBI" easily emerges from this fair and rational tax system. Economists across the political spectrum have advocated a single land tax. How we would force politicians to enact it is left as an exercise for the reader. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_tax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_tax