What would it take?

Four levers. Move them and watch the outcomes: when the budget balances, when the dividend starts, when an ordinary family reaches the $450K-equivalent standard — and the minimum growth America must sustain to get there. The window is 30 years from enactment: Year 1 is the first year of the new system. Every number recomputes live. Nothing is hidden.

The Four Levers

Baseline economic growth2.0%

Real growth per year before any AI or robotics effect — roughly the last two decades’ average.

AI output effect1.5×

Output multiple of today’s knowledge-and-service sectors by Year 30 — not just faster workers: AI agents run around the clock and scale beyond the human headcount. ~45% of the economy.

Robotics output effect1.5×

Output multiple of today’s physical-work sectors by Year 30. This is fleet expansion, not per-worker speedup: robots work 24/7 and their numbers scale with manufacturing, not population. ~30% of the economy.

Base Dividend per adult$12,000/yr

The universal payment every adult citizen receives once the budget can durably carry it. Bigger dividend, later start — the model enforces the trade honestly.

Held Constant (v1.218 illustrative)

20% consumption tax on an 85% taxable share (B.5 base case) · essentials exempt · $20T consumption base · protected legacy outlays $6.2T growing 1.0%/yr \u00b7 5-year phased tax conversion (Phase 1 gates) · $26T market debt at 3.5% (+$4T Fed-held at 0% from day 1) · Pools 2–3 recoveries ramping to $350B/yr · transition mint capped $2.5T/yr, $14T total, zero by Y14 (J.4) · Debt Conversion Authority retires market debt at the pace of verified growth (RAMF headroom, Art. V) · 260M adults · 30-year window. Change these in the full transition model. All values [M] until the official baseline run.

What Your Settings Produce — 30-Year Window (Y1 = first year after enactment)

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Effective growth rate: baseline + AI + robotics + labor redeployed into bottleneck sectors

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Minimum sustained growth to reconcile fully — durable surplus AND the mint inside its caps

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First year of durable surplus \u2014 every year after it balances without the mint

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Year your Base Dividend starts — activated only from durable surplus, never from printing

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Market-held debt at Year 30 (starts at $26T; retired by surpluses + growth-backed conversion — never by unbacked printing)

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Year the median family reaches the $450K-equivalent standard (real output per household, 6× today)

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Work-hours automated at your AI + robotics settings — and where the gains go: under AC, every verified gain lands on the public inventory and flows out as dividends and lower real costs. The robot’s output shows up in your check.

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The Budget Path — $T per year

Receipts + recoveries Outlays + debt interest + dividend Surplus Transition mint (capped, expiring)

How To Read This

This explorer answers one question per lever. Growth: the whole framework runs on real production — the minimum-growth card tells you the bar your settings must clear. AI & robotics: these are not job-loss dials; they are output dials — and freed hours redeploy into the sectors the resource system shows short (trades, care, energy), which adds growth on top of the multipliers. Sustained 4%+ growth is historical fact under good policy (1960s averaged ~4.7%; the 80s and late-90s expansions ~4.3%); today it must come from productivity instead of workforce growth, which is exactly what these levers model. The framework’s rule is that the gain must be verified on the public inventory before a dollar of new money exists against it — which is exactly why the gain reaches you instead of vanishing. The $450K clock runs slightly faster than measured growth: essentials kept home under the availability floor and falling import dependence mean the family’s real basket outruns GDP — abundance is measured in units, not prices. Dividend: notice that raising it delays it. That is not a flaw; that is the discipline. A dividend that starts sooner because it printed its way there is the system this framework replaces. Under the framework’s rules (Appendix P), a failing case is answered by slower phase-in — never by unsupported money creation.