Jake Schlesinger
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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Should the Government Provide Americans a Minimum Income? · 13 Jan 2020
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Everybody gets a guaranteed income of a minimum amount from the United States government.
No strings attached.
whether you're the poorest American or whether you're Bill Gates.
Sure.
Everybody gets a guaranteed income of a minimum amount from the United States government.
In the format that Andrew Yang has put it forth, everyone gets a check, every adult American gets a check for $1,000 a month or $12,000 a year, no strings attached.
whether you're the poorest American or whether you're Bill Gates.
First, I should make clear it is true that no other Democratic presidential candidate or any party leader has endorsed Andrew Yang's vision of a universal basic income.
But there is support in different ways for some variations on what might be called a basic income or a guaranteed minimum income.
The main difference is the question of universal, as in a basic income means that there's a kind of floor where all Americans would get some kind of assurance of a cash payment of some kind every year.
But it's not universal.
Those kind of proposals usually phase out as income goes up.
Usually, you know, they would go more toward poor people or lower middle class people.
Right.
So the core in some ways of the President Trump's reelection campaign in 2020 is that he has done a great job for the economy, that running an economy with an unemployment rate of three and a half percent, you're starting to see decent wage gains even among and particularly among lower income workers.
And that that is the way to help lower-income and middle-income families, which is to run a hot economy with low unemployment and not to have the government more actively involved.
They wouldn't necessarily call it a basic income, but I think there is support that in some circumstances the government ought to be channeling money to some families without attaching strings.
The most specific example of that is revolving around the child tax credit.
And Mitt Romney, the Republican senator from Utah, the 2012 Republican senator,
A presidential nominee teamed up with Michael Bennett, a 2020 Democratic candidate senator from Colorado, to propose a new form of a child tax credit.
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