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by 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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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_...