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As many people have discussed, governments simply tend to have higher budgets and do better for providing basic income, at least on a state or national level. This budget would be even higher since many ideas for UBI basically include removing other forms of welfare and administrative oversight for a more streamlined UBI program. Economists in Britain even pointed out how a UBI would cost less than the current British welfare program, with British welfare costing 264 billion pounds in 2017 & economists saying working the tax and benefits system for UBI would only cost about 67 billion pounds, making British welfare about 4 times more expensive than UBI. However, private parties might work on a local level with forms of UBI called local basic income. Private organizations may have enough to provide smaller villages or settlements with some form of basic income and allow government organizations to focus on income for larger regions, like how the Waldensian Church in Italy helps to provide basic income for the Namibia village of Omitara. About $471 billion was given to charities in 2020, which is about $1307 a year. That is slightly less than the average $1600 a year provided by the Alaska Permanent Fund form of basic income and would require every cent of this charitable money to go towards UBI. This would not be sustainable for charities (again, unless this money was used for more localized forms of UBI that could take some of the load off of public institutions when providing basic income for the rest of the population).