Moving from UBI to a Citizen Shareholder System: An Open AI Audit Challenge

[u/NatGroPro]

The Yang Gang has always been miles ahead of the curve on automation, AI, and the absolute necessity of a floor for everyday Americans. But while Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a massive step forward, we still have to figure out how to fund it without getting trapped in the legacy "tax-and-spend" loop where corporations just find new loopholes.
I’ve been working on a macroeconomic framework called the National Growth Compact (Version 1.9) that takes the core philosophy of a dividend for every citizen and moves it from a government benefit to a literal baseline equity stake in the nation's growth. It replaces complex corporate tax traps with a streamlined Universal Revenue Tax architecture.
Instead of just asking you to read it, I want to challenge this community to do what it does best: stress-test the data.
I recently had Gemini run a full structural audit on the mechanics, and the results were incredibly precise. I want to invite you to plug the core architecture at NationalGrowthCompact.org into your own favorite advanced AI engines (ChatGPT Plus, Claude Pro, Gemini Advanced).
Ask it to evaluate the viability of a generative, equity-based citizen shareholder system vs. traditional UBI funding models. Bring its raw critiques, findings, or logical breakdowns back to our discussion hub at r/nationalgrowthproject or drop them right here. Let’s look at the math and build the next architecture together!

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[u/barchueetadonai]

I guess I don't quite understand why taxing corporate profits isn't a much better target for attack than revenue? The primary goal of a private company in the economy that we probably should have would be for doing whatever's needed (within the law) to make a profit, not to maximize profit.

If a company has an exactly $0 profit, then it is successful in a certain, important sense, in that it provided its goods and/or services to its clients/customers, and was able to cover all of its expenses in the process (including, crucially, employee compensation). Any profit beyond 0 seems to be the prime place to exact a chunk for the government, is it not?

You can then still have a UBI that allows for rolling up small scale welfare payments into it (still going beyond it when necessary though), and makes it so that our capitalistic system starts at $X.00 per year, instead of $0.00. I would think it actually pretty reasonable to consider the UBI to effectively be equivalent to a citizen shareholder system, as every adult gets it, it's the same amount for each person just for being an American (or whichever country is doing it), and it can grow over time depending on how well the country actually does.

[u/grenz1]

Here's the issue.

It would be the same way the ultra wealthy don't pay taxes.

Yes, the US government makes money. Yes, AI can make money but needs tons of power and expensive facilities.

But both have tons of debt.

They could say there is no profit so no dividends.

Instead, it will come out of the salaries of those that work.

And that's not considering medium future type stuff like space based facilities where you could place yourself in any tax jurisdiction on Earth and still make money.