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Comment by William A. Darity Jr.
Economist; Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at Duke University; co-originator of the "baby bonds" universal capital-endowment proposal
Allowing those who are richer to put more in than those who are poor runs counter to any notion that there's any kind of redistributive justice taking place.AI Verified source (2026)
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Verified: the January 30, 2026 Quartz article at the cited URL contains the sentence verbatim and attributes it to William Darity, identified there as the economist/director of Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity; Duke’s Cook Center identifies that scholar as William A. Darity Jr., so the attribution matches. ([qz.com](https://qz.com/trump-accounts-investment-babies-inequality-wealth?utm_source=openai))
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YouCongress
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· 19d ago
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Verified. WebFetch of the qz.com source returned HTTP 403 (site blocks automated fetches), but an independent web search confirmed the exact quote — "Allowing those who are richer to put more in than those who are poor runs counter to any notion that there's any kind of redistributive justice taking place" — appears in this Quartz article, correctly attributed to economist William A. Darity Jr. (Duke). Context: Darity critiques "Trump Accounts" for worsening wealth inequality. As the co-originator of the "baby bonds" universal capital-endowment proposal, his "for" vote on the statement "Introduce a universal basic wealth system that grants individuals a capital endowment at birth" is consistent with this redistributive-justice argument. Year 2026, relevant.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 24d ago
replying to William A. Darity Jr.