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Exactly. Not just felons. It's not hard to imagine people labelled as "terrorists" or "trouble makers" being excluded.



The point of UBI though is to dismantle the administrative overhead and waste of existing welfare systems. A proper UBI implementation deliberately ensures it is administratively difficult to try and selectively remove people from the system.


You can't just replace a system where a very few people with real needs receive a large amount of targetted support with one where the same amount of money is distributed evenly throughout the entire population. Handing out free money is always popular; leaving people to suffer or die from lack of necessary medical treatment costing far more than the UBI payments, not so much. The introduction of a UBI would not automatically eliminate the need-based welfare system and its administrative overhead. Even if it did, in the end there would still need to be a system to keep track of who is qualified to receive UBI payments (even if it's just based on citizenship / residency), who has or has not been paid, where the payments are to be deposited, etc. Stopping one person's UBI in response to a court judgement would be trivial.




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