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Re:Universal basic income seems to improve employment and we... by blueterminal on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:19AM (#24258482)
There are 209,128,094 people over 18 in US. Let's assume $1,000/month UBI. It would mean we need to get $209128094000 (~ $210B) a month ($2.5T a year) from somewhere.

Where would we get it from? Are there any extensive papers explaining it? I'm super curious.

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