In the USA, if Basic Income were to be implemented, where would the money come from?  Currently the rate of monetary inflation is quite high- we&#x27;ve gone from $11T to $18T in the monetary system during the Obama administration.   If we were to start printing even more money to pay people a basic income, this monetary inflation would cause prices to rise to wipe out the benefit of the program, most likely.<p>In fact, the reason people are suffering now is the level of monetary inflation (Which has been high going back to the Reagan era, so it&#x27;s the fault of both parties. This is not a partisan issue- it&#x27;s an economics one.  And the problem is that politicians get elected by promising stuff, but to produce the stuff, they can&#x27;t raise taxes, so they do the equivalent by printing money.)