First off, I think the idea of BI is great, I just don't think we have the real taste of what that would look like yet from someone who knows how to write bills

First off, I think the idea of BI is great, I just don't think we have the real taste of what that would look like yet from someone who knows how to write bills. Lots of handwaving from all corners. I don't see how cutting medicare could work to solve income? The reason we have socialized medicine for old people is it's too expensive for insurers to carry. $350 a month is not an annualized cost for EVERY american, it's for non old people. That's including sharp obamacare type subsidies still for many age brackets. I know even my (early 30's) healthcare premiums are above that. I don't see how cutting someone who's reliant on a $2,642 dollar a month income social security retirement payment is going to work. At best, I see social security retirement largely staying at it's current level. Cutting Social Security Disability (and all the anti fraud apparatus around it) is likely very possible though >would be a lot of administrative costs eliminated Those costs are rolled up into the SSA numbers in the federal budget. A portion of the medicare cost is the medicare overhead, etc. So it's not the budget numbers + overhead: the budget numbers are inclusive already I think a wage floor (minimum wage still), strong policing of unpaid internships, and a smaller form of BI is possible, possibly without any tax increases or with far more moderate ones, especially if many state responsibilities are taken over at the federal level. I just don't see the list of things that can really be cut nor the total take we'd get from that to work with.