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We should replace the ragbag of specific welfare programs with a single comprehensive program of income supplements in cash - a negative income tax. It would provide an assured minimum to all persons in need, regardless of the reasons for their need...A negative income tax provides comprehensive reform which would do more efficiently and humanely what our present welfare system does so inefficiently and inhumanely.
~Milton Friedman
I get emotional about facts.Although we are still a long way from the 2020 presidential campaigns, whispers of who the Democratic candidates will be and what policy platforms will be adopted is steadily droning into an orchestra. We can already predict some of the names that are likely to appear on the ballot sheet and the talking points that will be heard on the campaign trail, and it would not be imprudent to suspect the upcoming election will be even uglier and more contentious than the last.
~Andrew Yang
Comment: The 'obvious connection' being made is that this is intended to influence the Brexit negotiations, with the bomb threats ostensibly being a reminder from Irish nationalists that 'we're still here' as the potential return of a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland looms.
Less obvious is whether this is connected with the simultaneous 'suspicious packages' being sent to government ministers in Dublin, which sparked an 'anti-terror' military lock-down there two days ago.
UPDATE 6pm CET
The "Irish connection" is now explicit: the explosives reportedly had Irish stamps: An initially 'suspicious' package found today near the entrance to Britain's parliament was later deemed 'not suspicious'.
UPDATE 10pm CET
RT now reports that: Somebody's clearly working overtime. Somebody seeking to influence the Brexit fiasco deadline at the end of this month. Somebody not wannabe-IRA or ISIS...