Anyway, FAP, for those of you who aren't aware, was Richard Nixon's 1969 proposal for an annual guaranteed income. While passing through the House by over 100 votes in early 1970, it never got through the Senate thanks to an odd coalition of labor unions and entrenched interests in the bureaucracy(FAP would lead to a *bunch* of fired bureaucrats, which was part of what Nixon wanted.



), liberals who were offended at the mandatory work requirements put on to placate conservatives(and who just didn't trust Nixon, period), and conservatives offended at the idea of a GAI at all, especially one that would cover the "working poor" like FAP. The Finance Committee was dominated by Dixiecrats-who, as the representatives of poor Southern states, would be most impacted by the change in social order. 52 percent of FAP's recipients would be Southern-and Western Republicans who didn't like welfare at all: