Hillary Clinton almost ran for president on a universal basic income

Re:Hillary Clinton almost ran for president on a universal b... by whack on Friday September 15, 2017 @11:46AM (#15258093)

> "For the 2017 fiscal year that ends on September 30, the Obama budget called for $582.7 billion, which included a base budget of $523.9 billion and the "overseas contingency operations (OCO) budget" of $58.8 billion. The Trump administration ... requested $574.5 billion in base budget and $64.6 billion in OCO for a total of $639.1 billion... Today, the House passed a $696.5 billion defense bill that makes Trump's look positively reasonable in comparison"

The budget increase was ~$110B. Which comes out to ~$360/year for each American citizen. I'm all in favor of cutting military funding, but that's not going to generate nearly enough revenue to fund a meaningful basic-income program.

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Re:Hillary Clinton almost ran for president on a universal b... by xster on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:01PM (#15260750)

Sorry, it was an overly snarky comment.

I don't think any basic income proponents are suggesting that it be funded as a purely net-additive expense on the budget. I wasn't necessarily suggesting that we can get basic income while keeping all existing social welfare by cutting other non social welfare related expenses.

I'm just saying that a more equitable amount of public interest in a Pentagon that 'lost' 6.5 trillion in funny accounting would be helpful to basic income too, in a supplemental way. I didn't mean to let it exclude discussions on a 'primary' way of funding basic income on the budget.

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