Sentences with phrase «guaranteed annual income proposal»

It could be because of our insistence on the American Dream and the ideal of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps or the aversion many people have to the support systems we already have in place or the tax implications a UBI system would have (more on that later), but the closest we've gotten is Richard Nixon's guaranteed annual income proposal in the 1970s, which was still a means - tested program, and which was passed in the House of Representatives but killed in the Senate.