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.
Welfare
“Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and wider, with less and less pretense at justification. Economically, the forced demands of one group create hardships for all others, thus producing an inextricable mixture of actual victims and plain parasites. Since need, not achievement, is held as the criterion of rewards, the government necessarily keeps sacrificing the more productive groups to the less productive, gradually chaining the top level of the economy, then the next level, then the next. (How else are unachieved rewards to be provided?)
There are two kinds of need involved in this process: the need of the group making demands, which is openly proclaimed and serves as cover for another need, which is never mentioned—the need of the power-seekers, who require a group of dependent favor-recipients in order to rise to power. Altruism feeds the first need, statism feeds the second, Pragmatism blinds everyone—including victims and profiteers—not merely to the deadly nature of the process, but even to the fact that a process is going on.” – AYN RAND
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.
Poverty and Snow Storms
Many young people in poverty today not only do not seem to know the way, but have many other people leading them off in other directions.
The High Cost of Liberalism: Part III
“Poverty” is in the eye of the statisticians — more specifically, the government statisticians who define what constitutes “poverty,” and who are unlikely to define it in ways that might jeopardize the massive welfare state that they are part of.
Bill Gates is Wrong About “Giving Back”
By saying, “I must give back,” a person is essentially acknowledging, “I stole something.”
Obama Subsidy Spin
Obamacare incentives could reduce the size of the labor force by more than two million workers by 2017
No Material Poverty in the U.S.
Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor.
Capitalism: The Solution to Mass Poverty
If we want to eradicate poverty and increase economic and general well-being, we need to understand first what capitalism really means, and then embrace it.
Charity is Nice, But it Won’t End Hunger
Production is what makes all consumption, including charity, possible.
America’s Social Security Ponzi Scheme: Congressionally Duped Americans
The only way Congress can send checks to Social Security and Medicare recipients is to take the earnings of a person currently in the workforce. The way Congress conceals its Ponzi scheme is to dupe Social Security and Medicare recipients into thinking that it’s their money that is put away and invested.
Ending Poverty
Politically, the single most important requirement of wealth creation is freedom.
Corporate Welfare is Immoral
In its recently released budget the Canadian (Conservative!) government announced $6.4 billion of new corporate welfare spending. The aerospace sector will receive $1.2 billion of it over the next five years, Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario...
What About the Poor?
A common question, when discussing capitalism, is: What about the poor? In other words, won’t the poor be helpless and hopeless in a capitalist society? The premise underlying such questions is altruism. According to altruism, we have a moral duty to serve others....
The Founders and the “General Welfare”
The Constitution limits the powers of the Federal government. However, even a perfect document cannot stand up to philosophical evasion and corruption. Without the proper moral base, the principles of the Constitution could not be defended, much less kept alive. To...
Whose Welfare Does The Indian Child Welfare Act Actually Serve?
Anyone who would ruin a helpless child’s life, in order to assert their own legal prerogatives, or to protect the tribe’s turf, raises very serious questions about what kind of parent they are.
What About The Poor?
A common question, when discussing capitalism, is: What about the poor? In other words, won’t the poor be helpless and hopeless in a capitalist society? The premise underlying such questions is altruism. According to altruism, we have a moral duty to serve others....
Socialism and the Meaning of Investment by Government
Government makes ‘investments’ in us that we can’t refuse. Many, including me, have identified the socialist premises in President Obama’s remarks on July 13 in Roanoke, VA. But are Obama’s actual policies as socialist as his socialist rhetoric? The answer is yes, but...
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