Sowell have done to addresss the problems in black communities?
Sowell was consulted, gave input on, and supported a plan by Milton Friedman back in the 1978, near the height of stagflation, that was hitting the poor, and those on welfare -
hard, when inflation and unemployment were at record highs, that would have replaced the entire bloated and wasteful FDR/LBJ great society programs with a type of reparations. . . but it would have been a guaranteed income for ALL the poor.
Black, Hispanic, Asian, Middle Eastern, White, it would not have violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which of course, any "reparations law," has to include language which demands that any recipient prove relations to a slave that suffered economic harm, or it would be found unconstitutional under this Amendment.
Given the intellectual power house of these two economic minds, had the left gotten behind this idea, it would have cut the waste and bloat, and funneled MORE government help to the poor.
Naturally, a Guaranteed Basic Income Proposal put forward in 1978, when the US was just starting to have its working class de-industrialize, and sent overseas, was WAY ahead of its time. . . BUT, had the left gotten on board back then?
And given up all of their cushy elitist government jobs and agreed to shrink and drastically cut the government for the sake of helping the poor, and giving them a chance to help themselves? Needless to say, they were visionaries. . . .
You always post here, dreaming of Guaranteed Basic Income and Reparations? Well? There you go, proposed back in . . ..
1978!
None, I just want to know WHY MTG, LB, and MG voted Nay. You seem to call (D) haters of the Military for voting Nay, so what do you say about MTG, LB, and MG voting Nay? You are too afraid to answer, aren't you. C'mon big Reb ......why do those 3 (R) get a pass from you? None is not a link...
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There seems to be a lot of discussion and debate in the past several years with the advent of AI, increased efficiency, decreased employment opportunity and demands for equity, from the independent and far left, for ideas like guaranteed minimum income/UBI (universal basic income,) or reparations. Conservatives and libertarians shudder at this, because they envision more debt added to the budget, both in more entitlement payments, and more bureaucracy to administer it.
But what if we could satisfy the left's demands for UBI/reparations where needed, while also decreasing the size of the welfare bureaucracy?
Just a curious idea, film and discussion from forty/fifty years ago. . . perhaps an idea ahead of its time, coming from the right. Presented by Milton Freidman, featuring Thomas Sowell in discussion, the idea of
negative income tax. . .
Could that be a start, to solve the massive entitlement side of the equation?
Negative income tax
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Free To Choose - Milton Friedman on The Welfare System (1978) | Thomas Sowell
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"Milton Freidman, in the fourth segment of the series, shows why he believes government-run welfare programs do not help the people they are intended to help or achieve the ends they are intended to achieve, and why the "welfare state" leads to loss of initiative, independence, and personal liberty. Friedman compares slum areas and luxury apartments of New York City, visits two families on welfare, one in Harlem and one in Britain, and argues in favor of the negative income tax. Featuring Thomas Sowell.
Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights.. . . "
