I honestly don't think any bureaucracy would be trimmed whatsoever; it'd be replaced. All of those government jobs wouldn't be cut, they'd be moved to the new

I honestly don't think any bureaucracy would be trimmed whatsoever; it'd be replaced. All of those government jobs wouldn't be cut, they'd be moved to the new program. No matter how simple you try to make it, something like this would end up ridiculously complicated. You'd need a bureau in charge of deciding how much a person in each zip code gets, how much taxes to raise, which taxes to raise, monitor improvement, monitor areas for local government abuse (billing the federal government for fake people to get the extra cash, as an off-the-cuff example), etc.