Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…I don’t think you can completely decriminalize it. But you have to understand that there is something that we want to rescue from the situation, and that’s people’s lives. I think people’s lives should be given the priority in how to solve this problem — getting people off of these things and understanding that it’s very detrimental to their future. Here’s a sentence you wrote in your book, Kareem. I’ll read it out loud. Tell me if you would still say the same, because that book is now a few years old. “The Republican agenda seems basically indifferent to people’s hardships, but I agree with its position that handouts are not the solution to social problems. ” I still agree with that, but they have to be open to the fact that the solutions that they have put forward haven’t worked. I am still anxious to hear from some of the conservatives what the conservative solution is for chronic underemployment and the failure of our educational system. We need a solution to that. Why haven’t the conservatives come forward with a solution? They seem to think that they have the answer. What’s going on with that?…

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