A minimum to live
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- deathboy0
I dont know what gary johnson suggested but I'm guessing with friedman youre referring to the negative income tax deal. Which is seems to be far different than a guaranteed free ride of X dollars. More of cutting minimum wage and other government programs and allowing people to receive 50% of the income level they didnt reach. Seems to offer more positive incentives. So a person who doesnt work wouldnt get the same pay as a person that did work but didn't reach the level. However it has the same political downfall as every other social program in that a politician who wants to elected will arbitarily talk of raising the minimums in order to get votes. However if you cut all the other political programs and barriers and just went with only a negative income tax and let private charity fill in the gaps I wouldn't mind seeing how it works out. Right now it seems all the regulations and welfare in place is only helping to shrink the middleclass.