During his State of the City address last Tuesday, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka announced plans to create a commission to study the concept of a “universal” income plan to help the more than one quarter of the city’s population living in poverty, i.e., taking money from those who earned it and giving it to those who didn’t.
Baraka touted the plan’s collectivist benefits without mentioning its individual costs: “The problems we have belong to all of us, not just a few of us, so the solutions must be collective and not individual.We believe in universal basic income, especially in a […]
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