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Democrat Running for Florida's 23 Congressional District
I support a minimum basic income, which was actually proposed by none other than President Richard Nixon and conservative economist Milton Friedman.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic: the Reddit permalink shows the exact sentence verbatim in a comment posted by user "TimCanova2016," and the same thread is labeled an "Official AMA" whose title begins "My name is Tim Canova," supporting attribution to Tim Canova. The thread’s JSON endpoint also identifies the post author as "TimCanova2016." ([reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/419p5t/hi_reddit_my_name_is_tim_canova_and_im_running_to/cz0nxeo)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Cannot verify source URL - Reddit (www.reddit.com) blocks automated fetching. The quote is attributed to Tim Canova from a Reddit AMA on r/SandersForPresident (January 2016). Vote alignment is correct: the quote says "I support a minimum basic income" which matches the "for" vote on "Implement a universal basic income". The attribution is plausible - Tim Canova was a progressive Democrat running for Florida's 23rd Congressional District and citing Nixon's negative income tax proposal and Friedman's support is a common rhetorical move among UBI advocates. However, without being able to access the Reddit source, I cannot positively confirm the quote text is accurate. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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