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04 23 06 12:00 PM Liberty Watch Radio
Dr. Charles Murray, Author of "The Bell Curve," and "Losing
Ground"
Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly:
Libertarian Murray's Losing Ground laid the groundwork for
controversial welfare reform proposals. His latest volume
continues in the same vein, positing that government support has
exacerbated dysfunctional underclass behavior, and offering a
compromise to social democrats who call starve-the-beast
policies cruel. In "The Plan," all the money currently used in
transfer programs Murray doesn't deem universal (Social
Security, agricultural subsidies, corporate welfare, as opposed
to national defense, clean air, etc.) would be redirected into a
new program that gives each citizen an annual $10,000 cash
grant, beginning at age 21. The plan would slice one Gordian
knot: everyone would be required to buy health insurance,
insurers would have to treat the entire population as a single
pool and changes in tort and licensing laws would enable
low-cost clinics for minor problems. But Murray's purposes are
larger: to enable the search for a vocation by making it easier
to change jobs; to encourage marriage among low-income people;
and to move social welfare support from bureaucracies back to
Tocquevillian civil society?a nostalgic argument that deserves a
more cyber-era analysis. His volume makes an intriguing contrast
to 1999's left-meets-libertarian book The Stakeholder Society
(unmentioned by Murray), which proposed $80,000 grants, financed
by taxing the rich. Given Murray's track record?he coauthored
The Bell Curve?and his think tank backing, expect much
discussion of this book in print and on air. (Mar.)
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>From Booklist
Murray has ardently advocated scrapping the welfare state since
well before his best-seller Losing Ground (1984) cogently argued
that welfare harms recipients. He has been criticized most for
not proposing something to replace welfare. Now he does. Give
$10,000 (to begin with) per year, tax free, to every adult over
21, with the stipulation that $3,000 of it be spent on health
insurance and the strong recommendation that $2,000 be invested
toward retirement income. Once an individual's earned income
reaches $25,000, surtax on the grant begins, and those making
$50,000 and more would pay back half the grant. The grant plan
is accompanied by not that many legal changes, and they're worth
doing, anyway (e.g., creating a single pool of the insured for
health insurance, greatly compressing rate differentials). After
a first few expensive years, the plan would develop much less
expensively than the present welfare system. Gone would be
Social Security, Medicare, and the rest, and everyone would have
at least $5,000 annual discretionary income. Sweet? As lucidly
argued by Murray, seems practical, too. Ray Olson
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4-23-06 1:30 PM America Armed & Free
Author Matt Bracken, of "Enemies Foreign & Domestic" fame, with
an on scene report of a pro-illegal immigration rally in San
Diego that you're not gonna believe!
Matt is working on the sequel to his excellent first novel, to
be called "Domestic Enemies," due out later this year.
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