This thread is about Universal Basic Income, a policy proposal where citizens receive a monthly payment from the government on top of any other earnings they do or do not have. It's an idea that has a long history in America going back to Thomas Paine. Richard Nixon came very close to instituting a UBI-like program in the early 1970s. More recently Andrew Yang made it the cornerstone policy of his 2020 bid for the presidency.
UBI can alleviate poverty, boost aggregate demand, increase and encourage savings and investment, give workers more bargaining power, allow more people to more easily move for different work, allow the labor pool to be allocated more efficiently, encourage automation, and even subsidize some industries wages.
Most of the opposition is grounded in the idea that UBI would be inflationary. But by issuing reserves directly to people instead of filtering monetary expansion through layers of bank credit you actually eliminate the immediate multiplier effect of that money. You allow for private household debts -- often the real driver of inflation -- to be effectively "monetized" and you dampen future demand for consumer bank credit. With careful cuts to some overlapping social programs and more direct taxation on consumption, it could be very close to budget neutral. The more even distribution of monetary expansion could suppress asset inflation or compel offloading to new purchasing power.