Andrew Yang, Basic Income, and the Slippery Slope of Ever-Expanding Gov’t

Andrew Yang, Basic Income, and the Slippery Slope of Ever-Expanding Gov’t

(Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) When “ basic income ” became an issue a few years ago, I was instinctively opposed because I don’t want Uncle Sam sending big checks to everyone in the country.

But I admitted that there were a few reasonable arguments for the idea. Most notably, plans for a basic income usually assumed that these checks would be a substitute for the existing social welfare state.

Since that system has been bad n ew s for both taxpayers and poor people , a swap sounds very tempting.But I’ve repeatedly warned ( over and over again) that any […]

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