Sunday, February 4, 2018

Big Government: Republicans’ Latest Family Leave Scheme Shows Why We Can’t Be Free

A new family leave proposal shows how people on the right have allowed the big government mentality to take up residence inside their heads.
The basic income. The individual mandate. Cap and trade. Income-tax withholding. What do all of these ideas have in common? They are all schemes for implementing a massive and ever-growing welfare and regulatory state—and they were all brought to you by people on the Right.
The basic income is the brainchild of Charles Murray. The individual mandate originated from a Heritage Foundation proposal. Cap and trade was floated by libertarian “free-market environmentalists.” And what about income-tax withholding, the mechanism that makes it possible to tax a third of our incomes without outright rebellion? That was invented by Milton Friedman. 
Now here we go again. The latest proposal is not quite on the same scale, but it’s a microcosm of how people on the Right, who otherwise see themselves as advocates of free markets and small government, have allowed the big government mentality to take up residence inside their heads.
Last week, Kristin Shapiro and Andrew Biggs (of the American Enterprise Institute) made an original new proposal in the Wall Street Journal for how the federal government could provide generous paid “family leave” for new parents. Here’s the basic idea. --->
Read the rest from Robert Tracinski HERE at The Federalist.

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