just adding this about LW.
9% of the population makes over $100K/yr
according to this link
Assuming that the LW was only given to US Citizens making under $100k per year, the yearly outlay for LW payments is roughly 4.4 trillion dollars.
Reducing it to only people making under $50k would still be 3.5 trillion dollars ($20K * 176Million people)
The US GDP for 2016 was $18trillion.
Federal Gross Spending was $3.9 trillion dollars
Government Pensions $1.3 trillion
Government Health Care + $1.5 trillion
Government Education + $1.0 trillion
National Defense + $0.8 trillion
Government Welfare + $0.5 trillion
All Other Spending + $1.6 trillion
Total Government Spending $6.7 trillion
So theoretically if we got rid of the myriad of welfare/education/healthcare governmental entities, and rolled it one lump sum governmental LW block grant to the states, we would go from $3Trillion, to $3.5Trillion.
Could you imagine the shift of power that would create politically