Of all the things Democrats fail to understand about economics, their greatest point of befuddlement may come on the matter of incentives. They truly do not understand (perhaps because their political interests cause them not to want to understand) that when you make it easy for people to get what they need without working, you disincentivize work. And when you do this on a mass scale, you get what we've seen in the past several years, which is large numbers of people leaving the workforce entirely and no longer even trying to find work.
