Unz is hard to pin down ideologically. He ran against Pete Wilson in California in 1994. Was Ron Unz the conservative alternative to the liberal Wilson? Or did Unz's stand on immigration make him more liberal than Wilson? Hard to untangle, maybe?
Unz's idea here is that higher working wages would mean the working poor wouldn't have to rely on government benefits like food stamps and medicaid. I don't think it would work out that way, but will resist the temptation to simply pile on and attack the man for expressing his opinion.
What does that mean?