| The Check Is in the Mail
Lawrence M Mead
First Things, October 2006, # 166, pp55-59
"All national social programs - Social security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare, and all other means-tested benefits-would be replaced by a single grant of $10,000 to be given annually to all adults, from age twenty-one to the end of their lives. The idea may sound expensive, but Murray calculates that it would cost less than the existing programs within a few years, chiefly due to the ballooning cost of Social Security and Medicare for the baby boom. Murray's $10,000 grant would be universal, not conditioned on whether recipients were "deserving," like the beneficiaries of Social Security or unemployment insurance, who have contributed toward their benefits." Lawrence M. Mead is professor of politics at New York University. He is the coauthor, most recently, of Welfare Reform and Political Theory.
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