“My position will remain that I stand with Goldwater’s assessment from his book when it comes to government programs.”
Well, Goldwater may very well be right. And your position may be right also.
I never said we need a universal basic income. My only point is that not all forms are socialistic. It is NOT socialism when the only qualification is citizenship.
Do we need the government running such a program? We agree that the government does nearly everything inefficiently.
But there are some economic issues that arise resultant to the move of society from an industrial era into an information era. And these may not be resolved with cookie cutter approaches that worked in the past.
We have to apply underlying principles to new challenges.
There is no such move away from industry that I can see, or at least in terms of logic; industry is still needed, and frankly the left’s pushing industry off our shores is a move to undermine our national security by reverting the USA to the state of dependence on foreign nations (and this time extremely unfriendly to us) that existed during the time of the war of independence from the British crown. But that may be another matter, although I see a relation.
There are many things I disagree with Alexander Hamilton on, but he was right that “every nation … ought to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply; these comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense” (Report on Manufactures, 1791).