Tax subsidies versus cash subsidies

Megan McArdle is a columnist for Bloomberg View and author of “The Up Side of Down.” She tells Wonkblog, "Giving someone an incentive to buy a bigger house is a fundamentally different thing from giving someone an incentive to stay out of the labor force permanently."

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