The entire budget of the present programs combined is less than 30 billion.
You couldn't save enough for a 100 billion UBI program even if the employees worked for free.
I hope that you get it now,
Then go with a 30 billion UBI program. That is what I have been saying. Use the same budget. Think about what percent that 30 billion goes to the pockets of bureaucrats rather than the recipients themselves. The whole point of means-tested welfare was to have bureaucrats to determine who is "deserving" in order to "save money." But in the process the poverty pimp takes a big cut.
Basic income was literally invented by libertarian economist Milton Friedman as an alternative to means-tested welfare and Republican Richard Nixon liked the idea. Do they have mush for brains? Richard Nixon said, "The purpose of the negative income tax was to provide both a safety net for the poor and a financial incentive for welfare recipients to work." This idea that basic income is socialist when it was invented by a fucking libertarian is laughable.
Then go with a 30 billion UBI program. That is what I have been saying. Use the same budget. Think about what percent that 30 billion goes to the pockets of bureaucrats rather than the recipients themselves. The whole point of means-tested welfare was to have bureaucrats to determine who is "deserving" in order to "save money." But in the process the poverty pimp takes a big cut.
Basic income was literally invented by libertarian economist Milton Friedman as an alternative to means-tested welfare and Republican Richard Nixon liked the idea. Do they have mush for brains? Richard Nixon said, "The purpose of the negative income tax was to provide both a safety net for the poor and a financial incentive for welfare recipients to work." This idea that basic income is socialist when it was invented by a fucking libertarian is laughable.