by Terence P. Jeffrey. Another victory for hope and change. People participating in the food stamp program outnumbered the women who worked full-time, year-round in the United States in 2012, according to data from the Department of Agriculture and the Census Bureau. In the average month of 2012, according to the Department of ... MORE
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Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Where Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
by David Brunori. I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,”
by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business. It says
that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to
just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500 ... MORE
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corporatism,
crony capitalism,
lobbyist,
politics,
pork,
subsidies,
tax,
welfare,
welfare state
Veronique de Rugy: Time For A Guaranteed Income?
Friedman and Hayek supported the notion. Switzerland will soon hold a nationwide referendum on granting a guaranteed and unconditional minimum monthly income of $2,800 for each Swiss adult. In America, where Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty just celebrated its 50th anniversary of failing to achieve victory, liberals jumped on the ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Dependency, Not Poverty
There is no material poverty in the U.S. Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, in their study "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor", report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters ... MORE
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dependency,
entitlements,
government,
incentives,
poverty,
statistics,
welfare,
welfare state
John Stossel: Real Charity
'Tis the season for giving. But when you give, do you know your money will help someone? Social workers say, "Don't give to beggars." Those who do give are "enablers," helping alcoholics and drug users to continue bad habits. It's better to give to charities that help the "homeless." I put "homeless" in quotes because my TV ... MORE
Glen Harlan Reynolds: A Look At Medicaid's Awful Results
Incentives against doctors and high quality medical care. As the Obamacare debacle rolls on -- looking even worse
than it did a week ago, if that's possible -- there's a separate but
related issue involving Medicaid expansion. And, as with Obamacare,
people who oppose the expansion risk being called heartless murderers
for "denying sick ... MORE
IRS Paid Out $110 Billion In EITC To The Unqualified
One in five dollars squandered on improper payments. The Internal Revenue Service has paid out more than $110 billion in tax credits over the past decade to people who didn't qualify for them, a Treasury report has revealed. The Earned Income Tax Credits were intended for poor working families but the report showed that one in five ... MORE
Michael Tanner: Why Get Off Welfare?
Being poor doesn't mean you're stupid. Contrary to stereotypes, there is no evidence that people on welfare are lazy. Indeed, surveys of welfare recipients consistently show their desire for a job. But there is also evidence that many are reluctant to accept available employment opportunities. Despite work requirements ... MORE
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benefits,
entitlements,
government,
handouts,
incentives,
vote-buying,
welfare,
welfare state
Thomas Sowell: Immigration Gambles
When political correctness replaces self-preservation. Britain's late Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said it all when she wrote that the world has "never ceased to be dangerous," but the West has "ceased to be vigilant." Nothing better illustrates her point than the fact that the West has imported vast numbers of people who hate our guts and ... MORE
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borders,
illegal aliens,
immigration,
policy,
political correctness,
politics,
quotas,
welfare
Gary M. Gales: The Clenched Fist & The General Welfare
A clenched fist cannot create. If we asked what we want government to do to advance the general welfare, the answer boils down to determining what advantages accrue from organizing people and resources via government power as opposed to allowing them to organize voluntarily. Of course, government has no resources it has not ... MORE
Veronique de Rugy: Farm Subsidies Must Die
A program to take from the poor and give to the rich. On January 2, President Barack Obama signed a bill designed to avert the fiscal cliff. At the same time, to slightly less fanfare, he averted the “milk cliff.” By extending the 2008 farm bill another nine months, he prevented the automatic revival of a 1949 law requiring the ... MORE
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agriculture,
cronyism,
economics,
farming,
politics,
redistribution,
subsidies,
taxpayer,
welfare
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