[idiotsecant]

Money doesn't have to come from anywhere - see the record levels of corporate UBI that have been handed out in the form of quantitative easing for the last few decades, PPP 'loans', and tax hacks formatted to save these entities money. There isn't some bag that money comes out of and once you run out of it it's all gone.

There are certainly consequences to be paid when you do that, but so far we seem fine with those consequences when they benefit the most powerful among us.

[hcurtiss]

The result is inflation, which in effect is a highly regressive tax. That is not good policy. There is no free lunch.