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"If you make it $1000/month, now it's enough money to actually help people. But it also costs $3 trillion a year. That's twice the current Federal budget." The
by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"If you make it $1000/month, now it's enough money to actually help people. But it also costs $3 trillion a year. That's twice the current Federal budget."
The 2015 Federal Budget (I guess the last time we actually had and official one) was about $3.8 trillion dollars. The budget President Obama submitted on 2016 for fiscal year 2017 was about $4.2 trillion.
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoI stand corrected. I had $1.5T in my mind for some reason. Still, $3T more would be a pretty large increase. And there's exactly zero chance that a corresponding $3T would be cut somewhere else...
- arebop 8y agoAnyway, there's a crucial difference between "financially impossible" and "politically feasible." It's important to distinguish this because what's politically feasible can shift over time; it's not interesting to talk about whether we can agree to build a perpetual motion machine but it might be interesting to talk about whether we should send a manned mission to Mars.