“Alaskan socialists are trying to take your PFD” reads a sign at a local business in Wasilla. Whether or not this business owner is being sincere or delightfully subversive, I couldn’t tell you. I didn’t stop to ask. But the sign does point to a fundamental misunderstanding in the debate around the PFD, government spending, socialism and state services.
Socialists aren’t trying to take the PFD; they created the PFD.
The PFD program is a form of universal basic income, a policy proposal gaining some traction in the U.S. but viewed by many Americans as gross government overreach that threatens the […]
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