[MaxGhenis]

The quote you selected concerns welfare cliffs, where smoothing out the payout curve may slightly reduce benefits of those near a cliff and increase benefits for those just past a cliff. This split should be independent of the "grandma/pot-smoking-college-kid" split. In general the proposal I lay out can be designed to split out benefits for retirees such that they get a different NIT/BI than others, so grandmas can sleep well.

I am curious what Trump might think of basic income. I tried to write this piece to appeal to conservatives who want to shrink the antipoverty bureaucracy, and I believe there's a lot to like about BI from both sides of the aisle.