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by WalterBright 135 days ago
The entire defense budget is $874b.

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

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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.