It recently occurred to me that I wrote legislation very similar to this. Only there would be a $1,000 monthly payment for middle and lower-class parents with children under the age of 18. I think we should seriously consider expanding the UBI program we had for COVID, which was by most accounts successful (as we kept extending it). I know that even Labor is divided on UBI. But I think that a slow transition will keep our economy sustainable.
At the very least, I would like to see a GM report on how effective the pilot UBI program was during the pandemic. If it did what it was intended to do, in keeping our people housed, fed, and secure at the height of COVID, I think that segueing to a permanent program is absolutely worth considering.
IIRC, that was one of the points that came up when Congress was hammering out the COVID omnibus bill. Definitely agree that we should get some feedback on how that particular program has done, since the bill was pared back because we very justifiably agreed to wait for broader feedback on its efficacy that has yet to be tackled by the GM's office with COVID almost in the rearview mirror.
