A Conservative Take On America’s Economic Divide (Income Inequality)

I was surprised to read that a “guaranteed basic income” for every American would be considered “conservative.”

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“Murray’s conclusion is that Americans need to steer clear of Europe and instead get back to their roots. We should scrap the institutions of the New Deal and Great Society and replace them with the system of guaranteed basic income he first proposed in In Our Hands (2006). And we should pin our faith on the four traditional pillars of the American way of life: family, vocation, community, and faith. These, Murray argues, were the true foundations of the American project, from Kennedy all the way back to Washington.”

Read the rest here.