UBI and Negative income tax were once proposed as a sugar pill replacement for existing entitlements (back when there was a lot of FDR and LBJ socialism in place to kill wealth with double digit inflation) until the snakes inside the Beltway twisted it into an addition.

As a replacement, either scheme would be far less spending and far less of a bureaucratic nightmare than what is currently in place. But good luck finding 51 concurrent senators who wanna be taken out of context as "the guy who killed Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid".

This is the vital context missing when you see some 20th century libertarian economists were in favor of it and some dumbass commie tries to confuse you with a quote from one.