Quote Originally Posted by wufwugy View Post
I think a good portion of that backing by conservatives/libertarians is because they think it would be better as a replacement for the current welfare system. On that, I quite like Caplan's comment I posted a day or so ago. It came from this article:

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/...tarian_2.html#

In it, he basically iterates what I iterated, about how the popularity of UBI among libertarians derives from the compromise element of it. Lefties adore them some welfare, so it ain't going away and most libertarians/conservatives know it, so compromise.
Agreed. I prefer it over the current system.