Charles Murray on introducing Basic Income

Support for "basic income" has now come from what might seem a surprising source: the US policy analyst Charles Murray (In Our Hands, American Enterprise Institute). Mr Murray regards himself as a libertarian but of a socially conservative kind. In his ideal world, all welfare benefits would end. His cash transfer plan is therefore second-best in his eyes. A subsidiary motive is to find some common ground with "social democrats", as he is one of those worried by the widening ideological chasm in the US.