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thenewgreen · 4809 days ago · link · · parent · post: Milton Freidman Supported a Negative Income Tax
But he was above all a pragmatist, and he emphasized the superiority of the negative income tax over conventional welfare programs on purely practical grounds. If the main problem of the poor is that they have too little money, he reasoned, the simplest and cheapest solution is to give them some more. -it's hard to argue with this reason. The modern welfare bureaucracy abolished without penalizing the poor.