Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI) - Utne Reader

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From Utne:

The Simplest Way To Tackle Poverty.

Friedman made the conservative case for a GMI in his book Capitalism and Freedom, published in 1962. It centered on three points: It would supplant a bloated and inefficient welfare system, transfer spending decisions away from the government into the hands of private citizens, and allow people to get out of poverty gradually by not cutting off their benefits when they began to earn more money—escaping the “welfare trap.”

Of course bigot, conservative, confederate rebel-battle-flag-wavers, are all for getting the government out of the lives of citizens, particularly when it comes to controlling how citizens spend their money...unless those citizens happen to be too poor and too un-white.