Welfare and international aid: two sides of the same coin

If you don't do redistribution everywhere you aren't going to be able to do it anywhere.

There is some underappreciated irony in the Trump Administration’s demolition of USAID: the right may be hostile towards immigration, but eliminating international aid from the United States will only accelerate it. USAID may have all kinds of sinister programs, but even those programs routinely create jobs and tranfer wealth to other countries. Here fo…