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Isn't your final clause

> that said, I'd only support it for natural/born citizens.

directly in contradiction to the spirit of UBI that you endorsed immediately preceding it?

The spirit of UBI isn't to bring in everyone around the world and try to pay for it. No nation can pay for the entire world, no matter what anyone thinks. The US may be effectively more wealthy than most of the world, but there are a lot of people in the world. If you increase the effective population without increasing the tax paying workforce, it simply doesn't math anymore.

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