Universal Basic Income Transcends Many Political Divisions But Does it Work The word ‘entitlement’ has long carried much political weight. Progressives view it as a moral and economic necessity: The sick are entitled to healthcare, the poor are entitled to opportunity, the ‘forgotten’ are entitled to a platform to escape marginalization. Economic conservatives, however, have considered entitlement benefits to be the antithesis to ideological virtues like hard work , self-reliance and ambitio’n. Entitlements foster dependency, laziness, stagnation — so they say, and nobody deserves ‘free money’. But don’t the rich like free money? Through tax loopholes like capital gains, […]
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