Note: The following is a transcript (lightly edited for clarity) of an event hosted by American Compass for its members on February 10, 2021. Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center presented the case for a “child allowance” similar to the Family Security Act recently proposed by Senator Mitt Romney and Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute presented the case against. American Compass’s executive director, Oren Cass, moderated.
Samuel Hammond: Before getting into the policy weeds, I want to preface our discussion with a little bit of politics. As a lot of people know, I’m Canadian, and when I first started at Niskanen our first publication was Toward a Universal Child Benefit. In that paper, we talked about the lessons of conservative politics in Canada for conservatives in the United States.
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