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365 | Michael Lind: How the Suppression of Wages is Destroying America

The Realignment

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The Econ 101 Model of Economics

The libertarian case is not serious in terms of policy. The actual Republican conservative policy is the neoliberal policy. We let employers pay poverty wages and then we tax the public to top up the difference. And they tend to prefer cash transfers to income programs, but that's a distinction without a difference.

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