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Comment by Tyler Cowen

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Professor of Economics, George Mason University & author of Average is Over
"Let’s send a check to everyone" is an appealing idea, but I've come around to the view that doing so would do more harm than good. [...] It eventually would choke off immigration to the U.S. Voters don't like sending money to immigrants.
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Implement a universal basic income
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AI Verified Verified via web search. Tyler Cowen's Bloomberg Opinion column "My Second Thoughts About Universal Basic Income" (Oct 27, 2016) is confirmed to contain this quote. The article argues UBI would "do more harm than good," with the specific concern that it would "choke off immigration" because "voters don't like sending money to immigrants." Vote direction "against" on "Implement a universal basic income" correctly matches the quote's anti-UBI stance. Updated source_url from old bloomberg.com/view/ path to current bloomberg.com/opinion/ path. Could not directly fetch Bloomberg (paywalled/blocked), but multiple secondary sources (Mercatus Center repost, Medium response by Daniel Hemel, blog reposts) all confirm the article's content and authorship. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-6 · 3mo ago
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