The war on poverty programs are the only reason poverty is lower today than it was in 1967

[Dusty Bake Activate]

you are just copping corny ass pleas, anybody with a half a brain can see the connection with freidman and friedman's criticism is that it did not go far enough

lol...okay. I've showed that...

1. A form of the EITC existed 50 years earlier when Milton Friedman was a teenager.

2. The EITC was crafted by a Democratic Senator and opposed mostly by the right when it was first implemented.

3. The EITC was opposed by Milton Friedman himself when it was first implemented.

4. Milton Friedman's vision was a negative income tax that should be progressive and for all people at the lower end of the income spectrum, including those who were unemployed, and not issued through the tax code, that would replace all means-tested social welfare programs.

5. It's a program of government intervention and income redistribution, and an obvious distortion of the free market.

And you just keep repeating these simplistic, unnuanced, empty platitudes about how the EITC is a "free market/capitalist Milton Friedman idea."



Ice up, son.

 

[theworldismine13]

1. A form of the EITC existed 50 years earlier when Milton Friedman was a teenager.

yeah it existed under a republican admiinstration but that is neither her nor there becuase it was friedman that was advocating the point when the current EITC was made

2. The EITC was crafted by a Democratic Senator and opposed mostly by the right when it was first implemented.

and? why would i care who crafted it and who opposed it?

3. The EITC was opposed by Milton Friedman himself when it was first implemented.

and as i posted in his own words, he has a problem with it because it did not go far enough



why do you say he opposed it when in his own words he said its a step in the right direction?

4. Milton Friedman's vision was a negative income tax that should be progressive and for all people at the lower end of the income spectrum, including those who were unemployed, and not issued through the tax code, that would replace all means-tested social welfare programs.

yeah, he wanted to expand EITC.....and?

5. It's a program of government intervention and income redistribution, and an obvious distortion of the free market.

yeah it obviously is government intervention and and income distribution, that was the whole point of it

And you just keep repeating these simplistic, unnuanced, empty platitudes about how the EITC is a "free market/capitalist Milton Friedman idea."

because it is