Our story starts in 1795 in the English village of Speenhamland. Because the price of grain was rising, the local magistrates decided to give each man enough to buy 8 1/2 pounds of bread a week and 1 1/2 more for everyone else in his household. (If you had three children and a wife, you got a lot of bread.)
From there, we can leap to 1969 and Richard Nixon’s plan to give $1600 a year plus food stamps to families of four with no income. The Congress was not interested. More recently, we can go to Switzerland where, in […]
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