Former President Richard Nixon, right, shown with three other former U.S. presidents and then-President George Bush at the 1991 dedication of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, once proposed a guaranteed minimum income. Fifty years ago this week, President Richard Nixon announced to the nation a sweeping new welfare reform plan that would include a guaranteed minimum income.
Say what? A Republican president proposed a guaranteed income?
It indeed happened, but we know from the renewed clamor for such today by far left 2020 Democratic presidential candidates that it never saw the light of day.The original announcement was for $1,500 ($10,469.06 in […]
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