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...NIXON-ROCKEFELLER. Wisconsin Republican Melvin Laird declares: "I still think that a Nixon-Rockefeller ticket is the strongest one there is," but that combination was remote even before Rocky heated up his attack on Nixon in recent forays...
...resent the restrictions on their behavior, the intrusions into their privacy which they must tolerate to receive welfare benefits. Even the liberals who don't care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise support subsidy legislation, and makes them afraid of doing anything that would...
Even so, a frontal attempt to improve the lot of a large number of unskilled workers by subsidizing their income is bound to anger the middle class unless the legislation seeks, as does the bill proposed by Congressman Laird, to keep the gap between the poor and the middle class large enough to make the middle class feel secure. Most proposals so far do just that. The Poor Peoples' plan tacitly assumes that anyone with an able body should work for his income. So does the Laird Bill, which incorporaties most of Friedman's views on income subsidies...
...Laird's plan is a Negative Income Tax, which is not necessarily equivalent to a guaranteed minimum income. With NIT, the government makes up a certain proportion of the difference between a person's earned income and a set base figure. Laird's bill sets the base at $3000 and the proportion at one-half. In a sense, this NIT does guarantee a minimum income of $1500, but for NIT to be a guaranteed minimum income in the proper sense of the word, it should make up the full difference between the income and the base figure. By making...
...JOYCE K. LAIRD...