Guaranteed Basic Income? Hold on Las Cruces

Guaranteed Basic Income? Hold on Las Cruces

Commentary: There are no free lunches. If you don’t work, you don’t eat. Everybody has to pitch in and carry their weight.

These aphorisms from my youth, passed on by my parents and others from their generation who survived the Great Depression during their childhood, pop into my mind each time I hear about a new government plan to give people free money.

Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang proposed a plan in which all citizens of working age, regardless of their income, would get $1,000 checks each month from the federal government.Las Cruces City Council member Johanna Bencomo has now proposed […]

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