>>>Well for starters the title was “Why work when welfare pays more?”
That has zero to do with calling anyone a deadbeat, which is a moral judgment.
The title asks a rhetorical question regarding different kinds of INCENTIVES that present themselves to people in different situations, which is a foundational issue in economics.
I take it you’ve neither read the article nor have read anything in economics. The former is apparent from your misinformation regarding Cato. The latter is apparent from your nonsense regarding import tariffs.
I would say he's done a great job in all three areas.
He is a master politician and socialist.
The title implies that people are not working because they are getting paid more on welfare. CATO is implying a moral judgement.
I've read the article and I posted my critique of it as not supporting the title.
I've also had masters level economic courses. Which I'm betting is a lot more than you've had.
You can call my comment about tariffs nonsense if you want to. But our founding fathers put up tariffs. And we had tariffs over 15% for the first 190 years of our country's existence. And they served us well.
Our stores are full of Chinese made goods. Many of our industries have been destroyed. Our unemployment sits at 23% (shadow stats.com) and is getting worse not better. There are still at least a couple of hundred million chinese making less than $1.50 a day and would love to come in from the fields and work a manufacturing job for $2/day. And China is doing what they can to acquire our manufacturing knowledge to provide those jobs to their people.