A public calculator that will actually attempt to put numbers to the Basic Income proposal. Over time it will grow in complexity.
WARNING! Changing variables in real life is very distortionary and real numbers are hard/impossible to predict. This calculator is just a good starting point to think about things.
Download these files to your desktop. There is a Download Zip
button in the sidebar. Extract the contents and open index.html in your favorite browser.
Can I contribute comments and suggestions to improve this calculator?
Please. I'm not an accountant/economist, and I'm still learning jQuery. I need more variables and a better understanding of the US budget.
Will you accept pull requests?
If they are awesome, sure.
Eli McMakin
Web site: www.elimcmakin.com
GitHub: https://github.com/elimc
Population:
2010: http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf
2011: http://www.census.gov/popest/data/historical/2010s/vintage_2011/index.html
2012: http://www.census.gov/popest/data/historical/2010s/vintage_2012/datasets.html
Corporate Profits: http://www.bea.gov/iTable/iTableHtml.cfm?reqid=9&step=3&isuri=1&903=243
Government Budget: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2012-BUD/pdf/BUDGET-2012-BUD-29.pdf
US Debt (Treasury): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States