Welfare

Poverty cannot be reduced, in the long term, by “redistribution” of wealth. It can only be done by leaving people free to produce and keep the wealth they create.

There’s Just One Problem: That War Failed

Nothing says you really “care” in politics as a demand to spend $1 trillion of other people’s money on “essential” public “need.”

End Government Paternalism and the Private Sector Will Do the Job

What helps the most people in the most efficient way is greedy, self-interested capitalism.

Sadly, conservatives and libertarians are perpetuating this myth that the UBI will replace the overgrown welfare system, or serve as a substantial alternative.

This bailout is quite unfair to those relatively few states that are responsible with their finances. Through this federal action, taxpayers in those states have to bail out the government officials and citizens of irresponsible states.

Some parents are so neglectful that government should intervene, but not by “telling us every little detail how to raise our children.”

Government’s built-in ignorance explains how it can spend trillions on failed poverty programs, and then respond to the failure by demanding more funds to continue the same programs.

“We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”

Social Security is running out of money. You may not believe that, but it's a fact. That FICA money taken from your paycheck was not saved for you in a "trust fund." Politicians misled us. They spent every penny the moment it came in. This started as soon as they...

Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society? A variety of possible answers come to mind. The collectivists are more effective in appealing to people’s emotions. The interventionist-welfare-statist argument is easier to make than it is...

Consumers pay more and almost every food business suffers because a few big sugar companies have the political clout to get themselves a sweet deal.

The only way Congress can give one American $1 is to first take it from another American.

People in San Francisco often claim to be concerned about helping the poor. But their many laws make life much tougher for the poor.

Universal basic income, as all government’s income ‘redistribution’ schemes, is immoral and harmful to all, including the recipients of such income.

The government can, and must, protect us, but not as a nanny. It is not all-knowing, and it cannot define problems for us.

One of the remaining, big European welfare-state entitlements is being developed in Congress — by Republicans.

Neither the total amount of government spending nor the likely budget deficit is threatened with meaningful reduction.