Your argument seems to rest on the false assumption that (like welfare) anyyone who receives the basic income is not paying taxes. In fact, a lot of people wou

Your argument seems to rest on the false assumption that (like welfare) anyyone who receives the basic income is not paying taxes. In fact, a lot of people would pay considerably more taxes than the basic income they're getting. Yes, that's not perfectly efficient, but still more efficient than the bad-incentive-riddled beaurocracies that exist to ensure that welfare goes only to the "deserving poor".