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by kilroy123 3670 days ago
Pretty sure the number is significantly smaller than that. Children under the age of 18 wouldn't get money. People in prison likely wouldn't get money. I'm sure there would be other reasons to decline some people. Such as mentally disabled. (maybe parents or care giver would receive more?)

So it would probably be around 200,000,000 - 250,000,000.
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chimeracoder 3670 days ago
> People in prison likely wouldn't get money.

Well, people in prison are the ones who need money the most, given that they're currently working for a fraction of minimum wage just to buy basic toiletries.

> I'm sure there would be other reasons to decline some people. Such as mentally disabled. (maybe parents or care giver would receive more?)

And then you get right back to the whole question of determining who is eligible, or isn't eligible, and having some means of enforcing that... and we're right back where we started, with a means-testing system.

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xienze 3670 days ago
> Children under the age of 18 wouldn't get money.

But their parents will get some sort of bump in their BI, surely.

> So it would probably be around 200,000,000 - 250,000,000.

A floor of $2.4 trillion now. Downright affordable!

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kilroy123 3670 days ago
We would also remove all _current_ forms of welfare. No more food stamps, low income housing, maybe even medicare. I think social security would even be on the chopping block.

The total costs for all of this is no doubt close to 2 trillion. This isn't that unrealistic.

"Total Social Security and Medicare expenditures in 2013 were $1.3 trillion". [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_...

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