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Please elaborate. I would think that all the government would need to know is whether each citizen exists, is still alive, and what's their bank account. With n
by emiliobumachar 11y ago
Please elaborate. I would think that all the government would need to know is whether each citizen exists, is still alive, and what's their bank account. With no in-depth knowledge of US government, I think it knows on average much more about each citizen.
- Jtsummers 11y agoThe government already, in theory, has a means of making payments to nearly every citizen (social security). So drop every welfare system but the Social Security Administration, and expand its payments to everyone, rather than just those currently qualifying (survivors and retirees, primarily). (Easier said than done)
- hiou 11y ago...and keep track of every single one of those US citizens' addresses and/or bank accounts. Every single one.
- Jtsummers 11y agohttp://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/ http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/ The SSA is currently handling some 64 million beneficiaries. I'm not contending that it'd be easy, but it's a scaling problem at this point. Systems exist to handle it already.
- hiou 11y agoMy apologies if my original comment appeared to be about it being unrealistic. It was about expansion of government involvement which personally I'm not particularly against(or for). I was talking about it being larger than it is now as opposed to being practical.