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In an experiment in Illinois, members of a randomly selected group of unemployed individuals were offered a bonus of $500 if they found a job within 11 weeks and kept that job for four months. On average, people who were offered the bonus received UI for one week less than the control group, and the program saved more on UI benefits than it spent on bonuses.

— Harvey S. Rosen

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Plato argued that in a good society the ratio of the richest to the poorest person's income should be at the most four to one.

In this country, the number of individuals on the government payroll certainly underestimates the importance of government.

If the goal is to help the poor, why not give them the money directly?

If it makes sense to transfer income from rich to poor people within a generation, why shouldn't we transfer income from rich to poor generations?

The mere ability to postpone taxes may not seem all that important, but its consequences are enormous.

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