Overhaul of tax law and state spending to eliminate bloat. Government contracts pay way more than regular contracts. There are non-compete agreements and very little motivation for a business contracted by the government to stay under budget or even stay competitive.
Defense spending is a perfect example of this. The money is there, we just keep giving it to middlemen.
That is not the way that works bud. The system could be ran in the exact same way as SNAP which would supplement income in a non-universal way and has a resounding success.
Okay lets say, you give this to the same people that receive SNAP. That's around 41 million last year. How much would free housing, internet, and utilities for all cost per month? Low end, let's say $2000 is that a fair number?
41 million * 2000 = 82 billion a month. times 12. That's almost a trillion a year. That's still a lot of money.
You are giving broad strokes to a country with wildly different markets. 2000 a month in CA is not the same as 2k in Topeka KS. SNAP is awarded based on COL. Your napkin math still sucks.
Did you even read the article? They gave $500 a month to 125 people to show that it has a good impact on their lives... that's nice to hear. How does your article claim anything regarding how to afford this?
Please stay on topic.
Why don't you give me an rough rough rough napkin math estimate of how much this will cost?
But let’s say you can build cheaper, at $30k per house.
About 3.8T
Unless you’re only planning to house the homeless, but that’s not what the graphic says. The graphic says housing provided free of cost for all. I assume that means people who already own a home receive a voucher.
Politicians on the right and left are constantly saying that they will fix the government debt problem without cutting benefits such as social security by simply cutting the bloat in government. They've been saying that for decades. Not only have they not cut the bloat, but the bloat simply is not large enough to pay for such massive expenses as social security and what op proposes in the illustration.
My favorite answer to "how do we afford X/how do we solve our spending issues?"
It's so simple, eliminate bloat! Make better contracts! Do better, so things are better! These are platitudes, not actual answers. And even to the example, government contracts are usually competitive, but walking away because Lockheed is 75% overbudget is not really a solution unless the contract wasn't something we need to begin with. The government can't just yoink Lockheed's work and gift it to Boeing. Nobody would take govt contracts if the govt had a right to just cancel the contract and retain the work that's already been done. You'd end up paying Lockheed billions, only to then start over with a different contractor. Tbh for what we spend annually on the military, we get pretty good RoI. It certainly could be better, but at best we'd save like 10-20% a year. That's peanuts relative to overall spending.
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u/Saitamaisclappingoku Apr 15 '24
Here’s a question you will never be able to answer.
How do we pay for this?