Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

a proposal for a guaranteed income would today almost certainly be attacked as a liberal mechanism for attempting to bring about “equal outcomes.” Hayek himself explicitly rejected this, however, writing that “it is unfortunate that the endeavor to secure a uniform minimum for all who cannot provide for themselves has become connected with the whol

Declining Labor Force Participation

Since an all-payer system enforces the same prices for all patients, it has important implications for the cost shifting that goes on between private patients and those covered by the public systems in the United States (Medicaid for low-income people and Medicare for those over sixty-five). When a single rate is set, the public prices have to rise

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Rather than simply raising taxes across the board or on the highest existing tax bracket, a better strategy would be to introduce several new higher tax brackets designed to capture more revenue from those taxpayers with very high incomes—perhaps a million or more dollars per year.