Charles Murray is a genuine Conservative heavyweight.
And he agrees.
Replace the welfare state with a UBI and fire all the government workers.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-guaranteed-income-for-every-american-1464969586
It’s brilliant once you get past the puking reaction.
Likely FAR cheaper, and reduces the power of the state.
The devil is in the details. If you think the current welfare programs will just disappear with the advent of a UBI, you are naive. “But the kids need a good school breakfast, lunch, and dinner!” etc.
I read Murray’s book on this and this subject is probably the one place in his socieo-political philosophy and research were I disagree with him.
As I read the book I thought he was way off base about the basic human behaviors and how they would respond to the money. He seemed to be stuck in a middle and upper middle class mindset and did not think it through for “People who do not think as we do.”
I also disagree with Limbaugh on his take on healthcare because he cannot get beyond his limitless moneys to see that the middle class needs protections from predatory practices by insurance companies and medical-pharmaceutical-industrial complex.
Both have blind spots in these areas.
Too many freeper on the government teat. They will never allow that!
1. It’s philosophically wrong.
2. No one has shown that it “works”.
Charles Murray, a “conservative heavyweight”? Especially when he calls himself libertarian and is agnostic?
OK; now I see where you’re coming from.