Showing posts with label welfare state. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare state. Show all posts
Have Entitlements Become More Attractive Than Work?
A new food stamp pattern. The food stamp program (more formally, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is intended to help low-income Americans with their food bills. Traditionally, the number of Americans receiving SNAP benefits rises during poor economic times and falls during good ones. But that is not what is ... MOREJohn Stossel - Good Intentions, Incentives And Poverty
The great conceit of central planners. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared "War on Poverty." It sounded great to me. I was taught at Princeton, "We're a rich country. All we have to do is tax the rich, and then use that money to create programs that will lift the poor out of poverty." Government created job-training programs for ... MORECalifornia Governor Approves Benefits For Illegal Aliens
by Jonah Bennett. Pass Go and collect $200. Thanks to Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, millions of dollars of aid
will now be available to California’s illegal immigrants, in order to
help them navigate the complexities of the legal system, the Washington Post reports. Illegal immigrants have been streaming across the the southern U.S. ... MOREMichael Booth: Crony Capitalism & Progressive Desparation
What happens when you run out of the people's money? If you hang out at the intersection of Politics Avenue and Economics Boulevard, as I frequently do, you've noticed the ugly fusion of welfare state government and major corporations we have come to call "crony capitalism." It was a mystery to me why progressives, who ... MORE
The War On Poverty: 50 Years Of Failure
by Robert Rector. This year marks the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson’s launch of the War on Poverty. In January 1964, Johnson declared “unconditional war on poverty in America.” Since then, the taxpayers have spent $22 trillion on Johnson’s war. Adjusted for inflation, that’s three times the cost of all military wars since the ... MOREKeep Them Down, Keep Them Dependent
How to prevent the young and poor from succeeding. Let’s face it. I’m not that young anymore. I’m also not poor anymore, and I live a comfortable middle-class American life. Most older, better off middle-classers like me got where we are through the dynamic market process. The trouble is, now that we’re doing pretty well, that same ... MOREJacob Hornblower: What Does It Mean To Be Free?
From land of the free to indoctrination nation. Johann von Goethe once wrote, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than
those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe’s statement perfectly
captures the plight of the American people in our time. That’s one of
the principal challenges that we libertarians face, for if people are
convinced ... MORE
Income Redistribution About Votes, Not Helping The Poor
by Jeffrey Dorfman. Everyone knows the famous Chinese proverb: Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you have fed him for a lifetime. So why does the federal government spend so much money on giving away fish and so little on teaching people how to fish? Because Democrats want people to depend on ... MOREWhy The Cost Of Government Is Higher Than You Think
by Gary Galles. Crowding out what matters. “Look what I did for you!” When our children were small, my wife and I
got many gifts from them accompanied with those words (including most of
our
refrigerator art and many things that still adorn our Christmas trees),
in search of approval and encouragement. While that process was an ... MORE
What Next: Paid 'Menstrual Leave' for Working Women?
by William Bigelow. The Huffington Post's wet dream. Slate had already tackled the issue, with writer Katy Waldman dismissing it by saying, “… don’t offer us paid period leave. We’ll just spend it all taking self-pitying Buzzfeed quizzes.” But when HuffPost Live interviewed Skepchick.org founder Rebecca Watson and Mikki Kendall, ... MOREIn 20% Of American Families, EVERYONE Is Unemployed
by Michael Snyder. The real unemployment rate. According to shocking new numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of American families do not have a single person that is working. So when someone tries to tell you that the unemployment rate in the United States is about 7 percent, ... MOREThomas Sowell: The High Cost Of Liberalism - Part Three
The wrong incentives. Income inequality has long been one of the liberals' favorite issues. So there is nothing surprising about its being pushed hard this election year. If nothing else, it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals. Like so many other ... MORE86M Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers
by Terence P. Jeffrey. Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especially those entrusted with public office, should know. It is 86,429,000. That is the number of Americans who in 2012 got up every morning and went to work — in the private sector — and did it week after week after week. ... MORE
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