[ExI] Friedman and negative income tax

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/5/6 Dan <dan_ust at yahoo.com>:
>
>> For almost all of my childhood, I lived in poor neighborhoods around the US.  And by poor, I mean many if not most people were on some form of public assistance.
>
> And it would have been better if they had been allowed to starve,
> denied education and health care etc.?

### Yes. They would be a lesson to others. Work hard, don't do drugs,
keep your nose clean, and you'll make it. Screw up, over and over and
over again, and, well, screw you.

Rafal

PS. Keeping your nose clean is important. Otherwise pores get bigger
and the nose-hair can scare little children.