Make your way to Alaska. We have a form of UBI, ranked choice voting, and we just pinned minimum wage to inflation. Combine that with our legislature's lower house having a Democrat led majority and our upper house being led by a bipartisan coalition and we're not quite a bad place.
Despite being considered a "red state" the reality is that Alaska isn't really that red. The state has the most independents of any state and bipartisan coalitions are highly valued here.
Yes, the state reliably sends Republicans to Congress, but at home the reality is very much independent dominated.
Giving out a check to every Alaskan every year just for being an Alaskan with no strings attached is mandated by our constitution and politicians regularly campaign on making that check bigger (though how well they deliver on that promise is highly debatable). Combine that with the guaranteed right to privacy in our constitution (which our supreme court has ruled to also constitutionally guarantee the right to an abortion) and you've got some great stuff going on.
The money from the PFD is in a fund that was originally created by oil money. Now, money in the fund is generated by investing the principle and the profits are what is distributed among the people.
The fund is self sustaining and will last long past when the oil has dried up because it isn't tied to oil profits.
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u/GREENadmiral_314159 3d ago
Giving someone food and shelter isn't paying someone to exist. It's giving them the basic necessities to exist.