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by dahart 2981 days ago
If only it were simple. To actually do that, someone somewhere has to approve a budget of at least 2 billion dollars, that's how much money you're talking about. They have to both find the funding and have the political stamina to withstand the backlash on that kind of spending.

* my assumptions are: $25k income (which is just barely above the poverty line), for 40 years (which isn't long enough).