# gonkbrain.org

> Personal site. Its main public work is The Floor: a costed, funded proposal for a universal guarantee of housing, food, medical care and education in the United States, with no means tests. Everything under /floor/ is in the public domain (CC0).

## The Floor

- [The Floor, overview](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/): the idea, the bill, the funding, two short answers to the common objections.
- [The Floor, plain text](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/the-floor.md): the full five-page pamphlet as Markdown.
- [The Floor: Economic Package](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/package.html): the costing and revenue design in full (plain text: [economic-package.md](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/economic-package.md)), with a source link for every figure (CBO, CMS, HUD, Census, USDA, OECD, KFF and others, as of October 2026).
- [Costing as data](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/data/costing.json): pillars, net new spending with ranges, revenue lines with yields and sources, transition milestones, key risks.
- [What the Floor costs you](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/calculator.html): a household calculator; its arithmetic is in [ledger.js](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/ledger.js).
- [The pamphlet as PDF](https://gonkbrain.org/floor/the-floor-october-2026.pdf): five Letter pages.

## Key figures (2025 dollars, full operation)

- Net new public spending: about $2.2 trillion a year (range $1.7–2.4T), 7.2% of GDP.
- Of which $1.8 trillion replaces premiums, medical bills and state Medicaid payments that end; net new claim on real resources close to zero (range −$360B to +$390B).
- Pillars: medical care $1,800B; housing $180B; food $150B; education $90B.
- Revenue: $1.52T from contributions that replace premiums (employers 7.5% of payroll, households 4% of income above $20k/$40k, states' Medicaid share); $0.68T from a progressive package (deductions cap, wealth tax, corporate rate, IRS, brackets, gains at death, transaction tax); reserves and a VAT alternative named.
- Design rules: universal in right, income-rated in contribution; goods and services rather than cash; supply programs paired with every guarantee; federal guarantee, local delivery; each pillar carries its own revenue; eight-year transition, revenue first.

## How to cite

The Floor (October 2026), gonkbrain.org/floor. Public domain; attribution welcome, not required.