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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by NolF on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:27PM (#11424669)
Note that there are "only" 209m Americans over the age of 18 [1]. Not that it makes it much more affordable. Without including medical, it looks the government spends about 1.5T already (including SS) [2]

1 http://www.infoplease.com/us/census/data/demographic.html 2 http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/year_spending_2016USbn_1...

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Re:A Basic Income Is Smarter Than a Minimum Wage by EpicEng on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:30PM (#11424703)
Yet I imagine that a basic income for e.g. a family of four would be quite a bit higher than that for a single 20 year old. Minors have to be factored in somehow.
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