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Just 14% of all consumers think the payments should go to every adult living in the U.S. if the government implemented UBI.

Don't call it UBI if your position is "More money for me, yes, but not for everyone, and only if I'm not paying for any of it."

That isn't UBI. That's just welfare, and it creates the same welfare trap where there's an income threshold where you risk making LESS with higher pay because you lose all your low income benefits.

EDIT: To qualify that "only if I'm not paying for it" comment. past studies have shown that support for UBI drops dramatically if people are told they might have higher taxes to pay for it:
https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/half-of-us-would-support-universal-basic-income-but-support-drops-if-benefits-are-cut-or-taxes-rise/

However, when individuals were asked to consider UBI funded through increased taxation, support dropped to 30%, with 40% opposed. When they were asked to consider UBI funded through cuts in welfare benefits spending, support dropped to 37%, with 30% opposed.