Since 2013, there has been widespread support for a basic income guarantee. This would be money provided to you for just breathing. It would aim to replace the current monstrous, bureaucratic, costly and wasteful welfare state. The United States spends $1 trillion per year on welfare, and the results haven’t been good. So why not just abolish the welfare state and send, let’s say $20,000 per year, directly to the individual? Learn Liberty attempts to disseminate the benefits of the basic income guarantee versus the welfare state.
Editor’s Note: let’s just scrap the welfare state and completely ignore this basic income guarantee concept.
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