Show Guaranteed Income Is Not Th The Answer A. A r Guaranteeing everybody an an Adequate te Income might seem to be the most direct and simple method to end poverty pov pov- erty But it could be the the most destructive according to a Stanford University econom economist st st. Dangers in the various inc Income me supplement proposals such as the Negative Income Tax and nd the Guaranteed Annual Annual An Annual An An- nual Income are easily apparent says Roger A A fu Freeman Senior Staff Member of the University's Hoover Institution on War Revolution and Peace Easy access to public funds in Freeman's Freemans opinion is economically wasteful and socially destructive There isan is isan an inherent danger he says in dividing the people Into two classes classes' those who produce and pay taxes and those who are are permanently dependent on on the public pubU treasury although although al al- though they could perform u useful work Freeman says society does owe owe its its members an Opportunity opportunity to earn earna earn a living and he calls on the nation t. t to maintain maintain maintain main main- tain adequate incentives to work rather rather rathel than incentives not notto notto notto to work as some of the currently proposed Income maintenance maintenance main main- programs would do If a 4 person 4 person family can get frol froth from ithe the government without work and a household of d t different size a proportionate amount who amount who will take take a a job paying or Freeman asks Entire occupations would be wiped out out a large part of the of-the the labor force would immediately retire and most agricultural employment employment employ employ- ment would end The combined impact of push demand and push cost push inflation and red reduced ced supply of good goods would would be overwhelming and the noble experiment would soon collapse of its own own wn weight Such co considerations added d Freeman are deemed irrelevant irrelevant ir ir- relevant by enthusiasts who hold that human human dignity and social justice give everybody an an absolute right to an adequate adequate ade ade- quate income from the government But who is the gov government government gOY gOY- but the people who work and nd pay taxes Thus Thui says Freeman to give people who prefer leisure to work to-work work a claim on the product of those who choose to work for forces forces s the latter group into an involuntary servitude a new form of or sla slavery very |