re: One other common theme from the "Democratic" debates tonight

A negative income tax is different but very similar, this is true, excuse me.

But to your second point, yangs program is an Opt In program, in which a person would forgo most existing welfare benefits (some certain programs are stackable to UBI, he has outlined those).

So he hopes that this program will cut back on enrollment in such programs over time as people would choose this program as better given no oversight, etc.

Regarding the terrible govt bureaucracy. I agree but I think this program of just sending checks out should hopefully be simple. If it will be implemented as stated and planned isnt something I can debate, but to me yang seems genuine and I choose to believe his statements on his plan