There aren’t any limits on working more than 40 hours either. Many jobs you’d be entitled to overtime, but there are millions of people who don’t get overtime despite working it.
There aren’t any limits on working more than 40 hours either. Many jobs you’d be entitled to overtime, but there are millions of people who don’t get overtime despite working it.
The federal government spent something like 6 Trillion Dollars last year, meaning the cost would be about 6% of our national budget. Knocking off 1/3rd for the people who would refuse to participate, 4%. If the process happened over 5 years, you’re talking about <1% increase to our annual budget. And practically speaking, 15 years might be a more reasonable time frame simply given the enormous scale of the thing.
Sure, $332b is an absolute fuck-ton of money. But it’s not an inconceivable amount of money. That’s not to say we should do it, simply that the argument we can’t afford it doesn’t really check out.