In the airport line. Met some Trump fans from Louisiana. They kept saying the EITC gives money to lazy black people who game the system.
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I predict that if the country survives, this will prove to be a temporary phenomenon.
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many economists need to become better communicators and actually take the time to explain things to people. Many are too lazy
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I dare you to come talk to the people I just talked to. Try it. See what you can do. I dare you.
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Don't give up on them. Don't listen to people who tell you they are irredeemable
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Sure. But I'm at a loss for how to change these folks' minds.
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That's kind of the key to understanding all of American history and politics.
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The couple complained that black people get jobs "just so they can get EITC". I pointed out that the point of EITC is to incentivize work.
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..."But they're working only just enough to get the benefit," the lady insisted. I pointed out that EITC starts at 0 and scales linearly...
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We surely would have voted ourselves single payer universal healthcare decades ago if the country was homogenously white.
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