Alternatively, we could find such a system by: 1. Using public pensions. While unlikely to be supported by the people making the laws (it is their pension), if

Alternatively, we could find such a system by: 1. Using public pensions. While unlikely to be supported by the people making the laws (it is their pension), if they have basic income, they don't need a pension. 2. Move all funds currently in other welfare programs into the basic income program. This both moves existing funding m and gets rid of those departments, removing people working for those departments from the payroll. While my statement may be crass, it's a valid solution. 3. Take some of our military funding. Also give some of it to NASA. None of those solutions decrease net income, except for people losing their jobs (they can find another one?) or their public pension (they're getting the basic income, and the original idea was that once someone served their term, they'd return to their previous profession, and become contributing members of society).