How is it moralizing? Looking at that line alone, it says that the presence of A can lead to effect B. There is no value judgement. Suppose a nonworking, poor person receives a monthly check from the government. One of the following three cases must be true: 1) It will have no effect on his desire to work. 2) It will increase his desire to work. ("Hey, this extra money is really helpful. I should go earn some more!") 3) It will decrease his desire to work. ("Gotta go to work to make money and pay the bills. Oh, got free money, never mind.") Without consulting any data, my gut tells me #3 is most likely to be true. Does your gut tell you something different, or do you have some data to help us make a better judgement? Isn't it common sense that most people work mainly to get money?High tax rates and large subsidies to the nonworking poor can “dampen incentives to work and invest,”...
That's not a data-driven judgement; it's moralizing,