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Americans and their elected representatives will not vote for a universal benefit, because they believe help must be morally earned and therefore targeted.
Drawn from what Jennifer Burns said
SubjectAmerica
What Jennifer Burns actually said
- Jennifer Burns Historian of ideas at Stanford University and the Hoover Institution
I think it's always going to be hard to pull off because I think Americans and their elected representatives don't want to provide a universal benefit. They want to provide a targeted benefit because they believe there's a moral component here.
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