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Where? Most of the programs you probably have in mind stop paying you once you stop doing irresponsible crap. That has fundamentally different incentive effects than a guaranteed income that pays irrespective how responsible you are or how much you work. For example it would not impose a high effective marginal tax rate on those who work a part-time job (like unemployment benefits or welfare do).

Its effect would be more like that of Social Security (with untaxed benefits, and judged purely from the standpoint of post-retirement).

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