"What if your government wrote you a check for doing nothing? That’s the idea
behind Universal Basic Income.
President Nixon championed the idea back in the 70’s. It would have given
all Americans a salary above the poverty line. Nixon was just a few votes away
from getting it passed into law. From 1968-1970 the US government was waging a war on poverty. Republicans ran several basic income test projects. They found basic income had no effect on work ethic. The bill failed but not because the government hated the idea. It failed because the Democrats didn’t […]
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