> From where does that number come? The US has 258 million adults. If you give everyone $1000 a month that's $3.1 trillion a year. > wage war The whole budge

> From where does that number come? The US has 258 million adults. If you give everyone $1000 a month that's $3.1 trillion a year. > wage war The whole budget for the department of defense is about $700 billion a year. > Will not the increased productivity of the population make up for any possible cost? I don't know, but it doesn't seem like a given that UBI would increase productivity to that extent (or that it increases productivity at all).