White House adviser Arthur Laffer is rehearsing an old capitalist parable against welfare, according to the Washington Post’s Jeff Stein:
Imagine there’s two farmers [on an island] and nothing else. One gets unemployment. Who pays for it? The other farmer! That’s economics - straight, simple, intuitive, and true. That’s why government spending doesn’t wo…
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