October 9, 2019
Special Guest Perspective by Dan O’Donnell
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money,” Benjamin Franklin is believed to have famously predicted, “that will herald the end of the republic.”The City of Milwaukee seems hellbent on proving him right, giving the go-ahead to research into and development of a plan by Alderwoman Chantia Lewis to redistribute $100,000 from the Milwaukee Police Department budget to 50 poor families in the form of $500 monthly checks.The pilot program is the city’s first (but likely not last) flirtation with universal basic income—the new darling of the Welfare […]
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