One of the remaining, big European welfare-state entitlements is being developed in Congress — by Republicans.
Welfare
Trump Preliminary Budget Shifts Spending While Retaining America’s Welfare State
Neither the total amount of government spending nor the likely budget deficit is threatened with meaningful reduction.
The Entitlement State and America’s Fiscal Crisis: Capitalism vs Socialism
The enemies of capitalism indicted the society of liberty; they distorted the reality of capitalism and its brilliant triumphs in freeing man from poverty; and they imbedded in the minds of many the conception of political entitlements that serve the power ends of political paternalists and which requires the plundering of the peaceful and productive members of society.
Welfare State Fascism: Obama’s “Middle Way” Between Capitalism and Socialism
The danger from the seemingly reasonable pragmatism that President Obama proposes as the norm and ideal for a middle or “third way” between capitalism and socialism is that is constantly moves society away from the competitive market economy and individual liberty and more and more in the direction of greater and more government planning and control over facets and corners of our lives.
America’s National Debt Bomb Caused by the Welfare State
The Federal debt has now crossed the $19 trillion mark. When George W. Bush entered the White House in 2001, Uncle Sam’s debt stood at $5 trillion. When President Bush left office in January of 2009, it had increased to $10 trillion. Now into seven years of Barack Obama’s presidency, the Federal debt has almost doubled again.
How to Move from an Entitlement State to a Free Market (Video)
How the left transformed America from an essentially free market into a regulatory entitlement state and discusses how supporters of capitalism can develop an even more persuasive moral narrative of our own.
Jeb Bush’s Brand of Welfare Statism
Bush’s proposal merely reinforces the false idea that government has a right to force some to be the keepers of others. He wants to pass it off to the states.
The Busybody Left: Using Taxes For Regressive Social Engineering
Handing out vast amounts of the taxpayers’ money is the way the federal government has expanded its power far beyond the powers granted by the Constitution — thereby limiting the freedom of individuals, localities and states.
The Benevolence of Capitalism vs The Paternalism of the Welfare State
Before the arrival of modern welfare state, voluntary, private-sector institutions had evolved to serve as the market providers for many of those “social services” now viewed as the near-exclusive prerogative of the government. Unfortunately, after nearly a century of increasing political and cultural collectivism, the historical memory of the pre-welfare state era has all but been lost.
There Is No Social Security Santa Claus
Social Security is financial unsustainable and morally bankrupt.
The Service Economy
Something clicked for me as I stared out my hotel window at a train station and seeing other public mass transportation moving on the street.
Thomas Sowell’s Latest Book: Wealth Poverty and Politics
“Wealth, Poverty and Politics: An International Perspective” is a true gem in terms of exposing the demagoguery and sheer ignorance of politicians and intellectuals in their claims about wealth and poverty.
Open Letter to Alexis Tsipras
Greece has no future, so long as it clings to the euro. The dollar won’t servce you much better. A drachma will only harm the Greek people. That leaves one other option.
The Great FreedomFest Debate Was Like Watching Tom and Jerry
With apologies to his fans, Jerry is an evil little mouse who constantly pesters Tom the Cat. Tom tries and tries, but cannot seem to overpower someone who is a fraction of his size and strength.
Watching Stephen Moore attempt to debate Paul Krugman was like that.
Multiculturalism and the Welfare State vs. Economic Mobility
In utter disregard to facts, so-called “social scientists” do studies which conclude that America is no longer a land of opportunity, and that upward mobility is a “myth.”
Social Security is Not a “Promise” to Citizens
It’s important for citizens to understand — and face — the fact that the problems ailing Social Security are not primarily fiscal. The problems are moral.
The True Black Tragedy: Welfare State Policies That Promote Self-Destructive Behavior
The bulk of today’s problems for many blacks are a result of politicians and civil rights organizations using government in the name of helping blacks when in fact they are serving the purposes of powerful interest groups.
Taxing Society’s “Lottery Winners” To Feed Obama’s Nihilistic Power Lust
The real question is whether the investment of wealth is likely to be done better by those who created that wealth in the first place or by politicians.
Obama’s Hatred of Those Who Dare To Disagree With Him
The psychology of dictatorship flows from a hatred of dissension.
How the Unemployed Spend Their Days
If you’re presently working 40 or more hours a week, and are possibly part of the population paying taxes to the federal government, you might want to think about where those tax dollars are actually going — and what the people obtaining those tax dollars are quite often doing (or not doing) with their time.
The Immorality and Contempt for Liberty By Leftist Regressives
Regressives like to give immoral acts an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding expressions, such as “spreading the wealth,” “income redistribution,” “caring for the less fortunate” and “the will of the majority.”
Poverty
Left free, the market will provide the greatest benefit to workers, employers and consumers, while allowing charity as well.
Immigration and The Welfare State
Most immigrants recognize that America is the land of opportunity. If we let enough in, perhaps their number will offset the growing number of the native born who simper that America is the land of entitlement.
Piketty’s Popular Nonsense
When markets are free, poor people can move out of their income group. Income mobility, matters more than income inequality.
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