[Craig Axford]
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach (Crain News Service photo)
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and food stamp program, recently renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), are programs that serve as tentative steps toward conservative economist Milton Friedman’s vision of a negative income tax (a form of basic income guarantee). In this article the author argues today’s conservatives are increasingly turning their back on these programs, however, and the recent government shutdown reflects this change in attitude.
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, “What would Milton Friedman think of shutdown debate?” TireBusiness.com, October 15, 2013:
