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buellerbuelleryesterday at 1:53 PM1 replyview on HN

Total federal entitlement spending in the USA, per capita, is roughly $11,000 annually. Once could kill all those programs and start there.


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red-iron-pineyesterday at 9:41 PM

there was a professor in SoCal who was a big fan of what he called Libertarian UBI -- we have an insane amount of qaulification for programs -- must be a certain age, certain condition, must prove that condition consistently, etc. etc.

abandon that entire apperatus and just cut people a check.

even glenn beck called it out w/ obamacare -- "if total spending is $3million per person [it wasn't, btw], then why not just cut every person a check?"