Universal Basic Income is a concept which has been proposed as an alternative to means tested Welfare programs. Advocates of UBI hold that the overhead of means tested Welfare is excessive to the point that if you liquidated the entirety of the associated bureaucracy and started just issuing checks without the means testing apparatus you would end up ahead.
People later on in responses are free to use whatever sources they want of course, but I will be using US Debt Clock.org as it’s a reasonably accurate source with all the numbers readily apparent in one neat table:
U.S. National […]
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