So in summary, all we need to do to implement basic income is to take money from people trading stuff, owning stuff, selling stuff, borrowing stuff, or emitting CO2 (but only if you do it in America). Don't flinch! They'll tax that too.
For a country that doesn't believe (in big enough numbers) about providing universal health care to all, a country that has some of the lowest welfare provisions in the developed world, I don't see how it would ever come about to go for UBI.<p>Are all these discussions just academic or is it a real posibility? As I just don't see it every happening and certainly not in the US - ever
UBI must first overcome the unwillingness of citizens to trust individuals to be responsible for choosing how to best spend public funds to aid themselves; and to accept that they may often disagree.