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Ben Boehlert's avatar

*guy who’s only read Why Americans Hate Welfare* getting a lot of Why Americans Hate Welfare vibes from this

Dylan Matthews's avatar

* guy who’s only read Protecting Soldiers and Mothers * …

Ben Boehlert's avatar

*guy who’s only read Regulating the Poor* eventually enough people will lose their job that we’ll do more, but then everyone will remember that they hate that

Zac Hill's avatar

One of the reasons I think the “Boomer Luxury Communism” backlash against social security and Medicare is so not-especially-constructive is that, relative to the extremely limited effects of job training, simply paying people to retire earlier I think mechanically works at much higher efficiency with fewer externalities - but IFF Social Security/Medicare retain significantly high levels of popularity.

Steven Jessen-Howard's avatar

Kind of hilarious that "pay people to take care of their family" is +44 but "universal child allowance" is -32 🤷

Dave Deek's avatar

Can we get an age breakdown of the polls?