&gt; Some libertarians support the Basic Income Guarantee only if our only choice is between our current system and abolishing it for the Basic Income Guarantee.<p>What exactly would be replaced? It&#x27;s tough googling around for how much the US government spends on welfare each year, at least partly because it&#x27;s not exactly clear what counts as welfare. It seems like it&#x27;s somewhere between 0.3 and 1 trillion dollars per year. If it&#x27;s a trillion dollars, that&#x27;s only $3,000 per person, or maybe double that if it starts at age 18 (although that sounds like a condition to me).<p>Isn&#x27;t that not enough? As in, it must be a lot lower than the welfare benefits some Americans are currently getting.