I’m Scott Santens, and I've been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013.
Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking, I've lived with a basic income floor via Patreon since 2015 which has enabled me to focus on popularizing UBI full-time.
I am the founder and CEO of the Income To Support All (ITSA) Foundation, host of The Basic Income Show, and I also serve on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and have a Substack: Foreword to Civilization.
My debut book about UBI and how to pay for it is titled Let There Be Money. You can buy it on Amazon or listen to it for free on your favorite podcast platform.
Thank you to all who support my work by sharing it, and if you're new to UBI, my UBI FAQ or my evidence threads on Bluesky or X are great places to start.
A Guide to Basic Income: Frequently Asked Questions about UBI
Over the years I've been asked many questions about the idea of an unconditional universal basic income guarantee. Some questions are asked far more than others, and so I've made a point of writing various articles to answer many of these questions. Whatever question you may
Turtles All the Way Down: The Biological Case for Universal Basic Income
If our decisions are shaped by forces we never chose, then punishing people for those decisions and withholding the resources that would improve them is our true moral failure. I got my psychology degree in 2004 with a focus on cognitive neuroscience after first spending two years studying engineering physics.
The Land Dividend: How a Land Value Tax Can Fund a UBI
Why taxing the value of land is potentially the best tax for universal basic income by making housing cheaper, taxing AI indirectly, and pushing rents down instead of up Imagine two plots of land in the heart of a big city, side by side, the exact same size. On one
How to Fund Universal Basic Income by Taxing Consumption: Over $450 a Month From a VAT
Pairing a 10% value-added tax or a tiny 0.1% automated transaction tax with UBI transforms a regressive tax into a progressive dividend for every American A 10% value-added tax (VAT) in the United States could raise about $1.76 trillion a year — enough to fund a universal
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