Scott Santens

That would make it a fully universal plan.

And it's also, again, we discussed earlier as far as the way UBI works with net receivers and net payers.

I mean, what it comes down to is us, ultimately.

These politicians, they do what they do because they either fear that they're going to lose their jobs or they can feel entirely safe and they don't need to worry about their jobs at all.

What matters to the politicians is when suddenly their phones light up and they're getting all kinds of constituents calling them and they're saying, like, why aren't you supporting this?

Or...

They're even saying, oh, thank you so much for supporting us, although usually it's the anger thing.

But they have to feel that they need to actually support something, and they will get fired if they go against something.

So that's what it comes down to is if these – we can expect, because it is highly partisan, our government has become hugely partisan, that we are going to do this left versus right, Republicans versus Democrats plan, da-da-da.

But if people are suffering and they get pissed off at these politicians on both sides for not making this happen, then that's what stuff happens.

Even the reason Nancy Pelosi, I think, is talking even – she changed her tune.

She originally was not for this stuff, and we actually helped push the – a group of us, the Yang Gang income movement –

basic income supporters, we led an initiative to actually contact your representatives when we knew that they were already considering the details of the next plan.

And suddenly, we were pushing that heavy on Friday.

And that Friday night is when Nancy Pelosi on Bill Maher for the first time talked about guaranteed income as a possibility, something that they were looking at.

And then she said it again a couple days later.

And I am...

I am absolutely convinced that she's changed the way she was speaking about this because she had enough people reached and then people talking to her about that they were reached.

That's just that, oh, wait, there's a lot of support for this.

And so I think it comes down to Republicans will want to go against this because it's a Democratic led initiative and they'll want to put their own twist on it.