The Mountain and the Tree

I'd heard of the CBI idea, or something like it, as long ago as 1984. =:o} It's basically what my proposal is, but with more details fleshed out. Looking around, people supporting the idea seem to generally agree on the universal 40% income tax level, but disagree on what the CBI amount should be. (There's also the "negative tax" idea, which mathematically works out to exactly the same thing (i.e. in terms of who ends up getting how much money after tax), but looked at from a different angle, possibly leading to a different method of implementation and might be easier to sell, politically).