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They're going to tax us no matter what, why not put it to good use instead of spend 50 million on a better toilet, or a pork project in their home district?
by gremlinsinc 10y ago
They're going to tax us no matter what, why not put it to good use instead of spend 50 million on a better toilet, or a pork project in their home district?
- luck_fenovo 10y agoLet's talk USA. About 320,000,000 citizens (presumably basic income is for everyone). Let's assume $150 a week (it being $15/hr for 1/4 of an optimistic work week). That gives us 48 billion dollars that have to come from cutting existing spending in your scenario. Cutting your better toilet gets us about a tenth of a percent to this week's goal! You're not going to have basic income without raising taxes a huge amount. Current tax revenue per year is about $2 trillion, which covers about 2/3 of the current federal budget. If you decided to cut all that spending and spread it equally among the population would be like 6 grand a year, not nearly enough to live on.
- chinathrow 10y ago> That gives us 48 billion dollars that have to come from cutting existing spending in your scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_... US: 596.0B Target easily reachable.
- luck_fenovo 10y ago48 billion dollars. Per week. So, yes, if we decided not to have a military at all, we could meet the basic income requirements for about 3 months.