&gt; How about a Guaranteed Minimum Income for every American<p>&gt; Screw welfare, and its tenuous political existence. Support everyone and the government doesn&#x27;t need to invent more regulations<p>A guaranteed minimum income will without question lead to higher prices on consumer goods, putting us in the same position as before.<p>The regulations will not stop under this model - they will simply change. Where regulation exists now to keep prices artificially high and interest rates artificially low, the regulation policy resulting from a minimum pre-tax income will be that of price controls and the rationing of goods.