How about Social Security for all? WE're all in the database.

[librechik]

Just cut us checks if we have a social security number. And keep doing that for the duration of the emergency.

Then later on we can figure out how to make it permanent. The rich must pay!

[Sherman A1]

1. Universal Basic Income

is the answer to this and many of the problems we face now and will in the future. Andrew Yang was about 6 steps ahead of everyone on this and so many other topics.

[Massacure]

3. Yup. It would cost the government about 60 billion dollars a week

If you wanted to give $290/week to every person age 18-64 (equivalent to the federal minimum wage), it would cost the government 60 billion dollars for each week it was paid out to the 200 million people. For a trillion dollars, the government could pay that for four months. If they wanted to do that all year, it would cost about three trillion.

[Sherman A1]

4. Yang had a plan to pay for it via a VAT tax

at half the European model as I recall, specifically targeting Amazon, Google and alike.

[Shermann]

2. There's a government cheese joke in here somewhere