I've been looking through the GDP for a Living Stipend and this is what I have found thus far:

  Living Stipend				
  	    	tax/share	0.01	
  Population	 320,000,000 			
  NYSE	   802,026,511,675 		 8,020,265,116.75 	
  Forex	   5,300,000,000,000 		 53,000,000,000.00 	
  CBOE	   1,274,776,218 		 12,747,762.18 	
  Nasdaq	 671,175,892,500 		 6,711,758,925.00 	
  			 $67,744,771,803.93 	TOTAL REVENUE
  				
  OIL	 6,970,000,000 	10	 69,700,000,000 	
  FIN SERVICES	 1,260,000,000,000 	15%	 189,000,000,000 	
  TECH	 606,000,000,000 	15%	 90,900,000,000 	
  Entertainment	 546,000,000,000 	15%	 81,900,000,000 	
  PROFESSIONAL Services	 1,500,000,000,000 	15%	 225,000,000,000 	
  			 2,263.26 	STIPEND PER PERSON PER YEAR

I think we need more than this. There could be more if we stop asking the tax payers to subsidize the salaries of high level executives as well, but I haven't done that math yet.

To explain the numbers above, $10/barrel for oil, a penny per share traded on the major stock exchanges. 15% tax on services, which aren't taxed. Why aren't we taxing lawyer fees for example or computer consulting services or massages? Of course we can take those numbers up a bit or down a bit in the appropriate areas, but we need about 10x that I think to really give people food and shelter security.

I'm really shooting for $2,000 per month per household. I think there is a place somewhere in the country that any family could live on that amount of money and feed their families. Of course this would be adjusted based on family size and the numbers above are per person. An individual could survive on $1,000 per month I think and a family of 3 or 4 could survive on $2,000 per month if they do it right. If they don't they can get a job to supplement income. If they want to work more, they can do that too.

Sorry for the formatting. I'm pasting from Excel.