sorry, I have re-read your post several times, the first 3 lines, is not making sense.
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Great, you have been studying the idea for 30 years. Then you should be able to explain this since you understand it, as I would love to.
My and most peoples question will be, Who pays for it ?
Where does all of this magic "free money" come from ? 
I mean, personally i think it would be an awesome thing to know that people have their basic needs met. I run a non profit org and work with the homeless daily. To know or think that with this we could eliminate most homelessness once and for all ? freakin awesome!  It would free up so many other resources to focus on bigger and better things, higher education, cures for diseases, real renewable energy.
But even as a non profit org, we get money one of 2 basic ways.  1) or we earn it (which is most of our money) or 2) someone gives us some - someone else earned it.  We have no governemtn grants, those are all tax dollars. 
Who pays for A Minimum Income?