Some more data:

A lot of DEC is burned throughout the ecosystem through market fees, land LPs, wild pass, etc. While this varies wildly depending on many factors a rule of rough average to go with is about 1m DEC per week.

At the same time the DAO is about to pass a proposal which would increase the daily expenses by 5500 USD, so 38500 a week.

If we stop burning DEC and instead give it to the DAO. Going with the rough estimate of 1m DEC being burned per week and using a defensive price tag of .0005 for DEC this means about 1,3% of the daily cost increase for the DAO could be covered by simply not burning the DEC.

Just to make it clear, burn rate varies wildly and so does the DEC price tag, so the 1,3% are just here to give you an idea how much DEC is burned in comparison to what is needed.