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Matt Weidinger analyzes one disturbing element of Kamala Harris’ policy preferences. A recent study confirms that universal basic income—no-strings-attached benefit checks offered to recipients regardless of need or contribution to the…
Veronique de Rugy writes at National Review Online about the argument for making childless adults pay higher tax bills. Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance supports the idea. Vance seems…
Zachary Halaschak of the Washington Examiner focuses on recent reviews of government programs that dole out free money. Interest in universal basic income has grown in recent years, and now…
Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner reports on progressive city governments that paid residents for doing nothing in particular. Once the provenance of policy wonks and tech entrepreneurs, universal basic…
Without the ability to work for our earnings, we do not have freedom. Severing the link between work and reward has disastrous results. The government disrupts work and economic life,…
A far-left coalition of groups in North Carolina calling itself “NC United for Survival & Beyond” (NCUSB) is back again, but this time with what could be described as a…
John Fund of National Review Online urges policymakers not to go overboard in attempts to combat hateful speech. As horrifying as the killings by the El Paso and Dayton shooters…
“Economic growth, while necessary, is insufficient to address many of the challenges of our 21st-century economy,” Abby McCloskey writes in National Affairs. She offers some policy suggestions to improve connections…
Editors at Investor’s Business Daily pan a new study from across the pond. It suggests taxing innovative companies in order to pay for a universal basic income. A new “study”…
Edoardo Campanella writes in Barron’s about dubious schemes designed to battle poverty in Europe. The poor don’t often decide elections in the advanced world, and yet they are being wooed…
Somewhat buried in Randall Forysth‘s latest Barron’s “Up and Down Wall Street” column is a disturbing idea for government-forced wealth redistribution. [S]ome see the market’s gains accruing only to those…
What matters to poor people? H. Luke Schaeffer and Kathryn J. Edin took the unusual step of asking them. Schaeffer explained We ask families, “If we came back in a…