Posted on 03/21/2019 10:03:04 AM PDT by OddLane
I thought Freidman was the Earned Income Credit guy. Which is free gov’t money,but you at least have to work and submit tax forms. I think Freidman also had a blind spot on monetary policy thinking all these countries would float currencies in an exchange without manipulation. Believe he’s the one that convinced Nixon to kill the international gold standard based on this monetary theory. No better voice for fiscal policy and capitalism though, brilliant educator.
True, but this is a very different America now. Many, many millions are quite willing to subjugate themselves to the government in exchange for free sh*t.
"Presidential candidate Andrew Yang is campaigning on the platform of Universal Basic Income."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
I don’t know what post-FDR era law school Mr. Yang got indoctrinated at, but I hope that somebody besides him or his family paid tuition.
Ignoring politically correct interpretations of the Constitution’s General Welfare Clause (1.8.1), Mr. Yang's law school evidently doesn't teach that the states have never expressly constitutionally delegated to the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds the specific power to establish universal basic income, social spending programs uniquely up to each state.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In fact, a constitutional lawmaker and previous generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had indicated that it is ultimately up to the legal majority voters of a given state to decide if their state can experiment with things like taxing and spending for universal basic income.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
So by campaigning on universal basic income, Mr. Yang is unthinkingly trying to unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers imo.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA!
And the surprise is that after a while, anyone making more than $1K a month has to turn the “excess” over so it can be dispersed...
Didn’t Bill Clinton use the words “peace dividend”?
Funny how the left loves dividends when they can be used to buy votes. But a corporation making a profit and returning some of that back the shareholders is wrong.
When can I get my $1k? Can I get more if I use different names and different spellings or if I borrow a few of obamy’s SSN?
He’s going to be in the debates.
So was Dennis Kucinich. The two minutes of speaking time he’ll be allotted in the crowded Democratic debate won’t really do anything. The media’s post-debate punditry is going to take about the contenders, not the pretenders.
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