sentences:  Supporters include Martin Luther King, Jr., Milton Friedman (in the form of a negative income tax), Robert Anton Wilson, Gary Johnson (In the form of the fair tax "prebate"), Charles Murray, 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang and the Green Party.A basic income would disproportionately assist lower and middle earners.A basic income proposal passed the US House of Representatives in 1969, but stalled in the Senate over negotiations on the income cap.