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The excerpt below illustrates that in American political culture we _______________"Nixon had originally intended that every poor family of four in America with zero income would receive sixteen hundred dollars a year (the equivalent of about eleven thousand dollars today), plus food stamps; the supplement would fade out as earnings increased. He sought to be the President to lift the lower classes. The plan died in the Senate, under both Republican and Democratic opposition, and the only thing to survive was Nixon's late-breaking fear of being seen to indulge the idle poor. By the end of his Administration, a previously obscure concept called moral hazard the idea that people behave more recklessly when they're shielded from consequences had become a guiding doctrine of the right. A work requirement stuck around, first in the earned-income tax credit, and then in Bill Clinton's welfare reforms. The core of Nixon's

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