Let'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 we

Let'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.