Ranting to /dev/null

"The Plan", redux

Or not. I crunched the numbers. There isn't quite enough money in the budget. Even if you only give a stipend to citizens over 21, there's still 200,000,000 of us. The US government only spends about $1.5 trillion on the kinds of things listed in the previous post. That's a chunk of change, make no mistake, but it still only works out to $7500/person. Which is almost enough. Still, you'd have to increase government revenues and expenditures by almost 20% to make up the extra $2500 you'd need to make this really viable.

An intriguing idea, and I'm not convinced that it couldn't work. I'd be interested to see what others think.