&gt; Naively: $25k income you pay back $1000 of the $10k in taxes at $50k, pay back $2500, etc. That way you, making over $100k, essentially get $0 basic income by the end of the year.<p>If I recall correctly about 50k is median income for the working population, so you&#x27;re still paying most of your population at least $5000. And that&#x27;s just the currently working population, there are so many non-working adults who will also want the free money, I can envision the divorces being had for an extra $10k right now... the incentives this creates are very bad.