In our hands
a plan to replace the welfare state
by Charles A. Murray · first published 2006
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This book reveals the ineffectiveness of government redistribution plans and offers a radical new approach to social policy.
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I see no one in this active discussion has mentioned yet Charles Murray's book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236 in which Murray goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States,…
on “Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic Income” ↗…really, so there isn't a real-world experience case to look at yet, and b) a remarkable variety of people from otherwise differing points of view have proposed it over the years. Charles Murray's book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236 goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States, and suggests…
on “We Need a Basic Income Guarantee” ↗…about about how welfare should be restricted because Black people are having too many kids. His book had a great deal of influence on the "welfare reform" instituted in the mid-1990s in the US. * In In Our Hands, Murray proposes replacing all government assistance with "an annual $10,000 cash grant to everyone age twenty-one or older". Not only is this eugenics because everyone, abled or not, with medical needs…
…policy. Thus far there hasn't been much mention in this thread of an author who has written a whole book about how a basic guaranteed income policy might work in the United States. Charles Murray's book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State, http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0844742236 goes into detail about how much a program of guaranteed income for everyone would cost in the United States, and suggests…
on “Rather than savage cuts, Switzerland considers “Star Trek” economics” ↗Charles Murray wrote a whole book, In Our Hands : A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, http://www.amazon.com/Our-Hands-Replace-Welfare-State/dp/084... on this subject and how it might work in the United States.
on “Basic income” ↗…about a guaranteed basic income. Ideologically, Murray would probably be even more in favor of no government welfare payments at all (but ask him directly for his current view), but when he wrote his book In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State,[2] Murray's basic argument was that governments are already spending billions and billions of dollars derived from taxpayers for means-tested welfare programs or…
on “The Canadian Mincome Experiment of 1974-79” ↗Ironically, Murray wrote a book in 06 called "In Our Hands" where he advocates replacing the welfare state with a universal income of $10k/year per person for every citizen 21 and over. He opens the book by saying his preference would be to have no welfare of…
on “The Fall of the American Worker” ↗In the U.S., Charles Murray has been advocating a similar policy. He wrote a book called In Our Hands on it.
on “Joie De Vivre: The Europeans Are Out To Lunch” ↗Quote: It is important to point out that under Murray’s proposal, which is outlined fully in his book In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State, after someone’s total annual income reached $25,000 a 20 percent surtax tax would be imposed on “incremental earned income,” capped at $5,000 once someone earns $50,000…
on “Scrap the Welfare State and Give People Free Money” ↗In Our Hands by Charles Murray
on “Low pay and the rise of the machines” ↗