NotesThere are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.âFor a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,â said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. âThe evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.â Unfurl
Notes "It seems to me that people in Finland are more secure and less anxious than Americans because there is a threshold below which they won't fall," said Linda Cook, a political scientist at Brown University who has studied European welfare states. "Even if they face unemployment or illness, Finns will have some payments from the state, public health care and education." FeedUnfurl
NotesIf the War on Drugs didnât directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if youâre familiar American drug laws, it shouldnât surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities.Unfurl
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