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by izacus 134 days ago
From cancelling pointless military projects?
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The entire defense budget is $874b.

As I remarked, the UBI math doesn't work.

UBI would be pure deficit spending which would basically double it. Our interest is already the #2 federal outlay at $1 trillion (defense is #5 last I heard) and we're already in fiscal dominance. So the end result is UBI would trigger much higher inflation which would make those UBI checks worthless.