Well, people in prison are the ones who need money the most, given that they're currently working for a fraction of minimum wage just to buy basic toiletries.

> I'm sure there would be other reasons to decline some people. Such as mentally disabled. (maybe parents or care giver would receive more?)

And then you get right back to the whole question of determining who is eligible, or isn't eligible, and having some means of enforcing that... and we're right back where we started, with a means-testing system.

But their parents will get some sort of bump in their BI, surely.

> So it would probably be around 200,000,000 - 250,000,000.

A floor of $2.4 trillion now. Downright affordable!

The total costs for all of this is no doubt close to 2 trillion. This isn't that unrealistic.

"Total Social Security and Medicare expenditures in 2013 were $1.3 trillion". [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_programs_in_the_United_...