Dear Tom,  I belatedly discovered your commentary above, and am disappointed by how little time and thought you appeared to put into the topic before opining about it.  I then reviewed your background and discovered you possess academic credentials most would usually defer to.  But with due respect, I would like to shine some light on what I view as the short-sighted and narrow-minded perspective within which I  think you framed you point of view.  

It is true that Rep. Lee introduced the reso to study UBI, and he may have learned everything he currently understands about it from other sources.  But I suspect his thinking may have been at least influenced by my own research and writing about UBI--much of which I have shared locally on the Civil Beat Politics and other local Facebook pages, as well as by email with local legislators, journalists, and selected academics, among others. 

But my comments after the CB article about UBI in July contained a wealth of info you failed to cite.