Ideally, ideally basic income would pay for basic needs and let people be creative, more realistically it would be impossible to get passed into law, if it was

Ideally, ideally basic income would pay for basic needs and let people be creative, more realistically it would be impossible to get passed into law, if it was passed into law it would be turned into something unrecognizable relative to what proponents of basic income expect or want, and because it would be the largest social program in history, there would be a lot of unintended consequences. I don't see how you can look at how dysfunctional US politics is and think there is any way in hell that the two parties would work together on something like it. Democrats would get trashed for removing existing social programs and Republicans would get trashed for creating a new social program. Maybe in another country... Basic income is a great idea, but something that is actually politically workable and a lot smaller in scope is needed. It is constantly advocated around here with no real evidence that it is workable at scale.