A plan to replace the welfare state

Murray's book
The cover illustration for Charles Murray's new book "In Our Hands: A Plan To Replace The Welfare State."
Courtesy AEI Press

Charles Murray, who wrote the controversial book on racial differences, "The Bell Curve," is out with a new radical proposal to do away with America's current welfare state. Murray wants to replace Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid with a simple $10,000-per-year payment to every American who is over 21 and isn't in jail.

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