Now you&#x27;ve got me imagining children receiving their own basic incomes, with the government getting to decide how some proportion (30%? 100%?) of their monthly allocation gets spent, and the parents getting handed the rest.<p>Something interesting with basic income is that it erases the traditional &quot;income flow&quot; that makes it make sense for parents to have one bank account that they own, and pay for all family members out of it. Under basic income, I could see each family member defaulting to having their own bank account to receive deposits.<p>You could go <i>way</i> more wild in the &quot;enforcing spending on childen&quot; with that setup than anything food stamps do. You could require that e.g. the government gets to audit the expenses on all &quot;child&quot; accounts to ensure they&#x27;re <i>for</i> the child; and additionally require that parents only buy things &quot;for&quot; their children by first transferring money from their own account to the child&#x27;s, and only then spend what is now <i>the child&#x27;s</i> money on the item.