So let's bring this to the, the sort of subject of the podcast of where does tax come in to these discussions of universal basic income?

Well, when you have a discussion about universal basic income, you automatically need to talk about how you're gonna wanna fund it.

And so the different ways to fund it definitely often come back to some form of tax.

For example, there was a University of Chicago Law Review article that talked about funding it with carbon taxes, a combination of scaling back current cash benefits or close to cash benefits, and then a surtax that was just a flat tax that would fill in the funding gap after you reduce some cash or cash close benefits, and you maybe fund some of it with a carbon tax.

What's left over is all of individual and corporate revenue divided by the shortfall that was left.

And that, that wound up being just over nine percent, a nine percent surtax.

So if you're going to try to do universal basic income and if you're going to estimate what it's gonna cost, you have to come up with a revenue raiser, and tax is the most obvious answer.

Can you tell us what's going on there?