Tag Archive | "Welfare"
The Moocher Index Tracks the Non-Poor that Receive Government Income Transfers
Dan Mitchell at the Cato Institute has put together a Moocher Index to track which states have the largest number of non-poor people receiving welfare. A few quick observations. Why is Vermont (by far) the state with the largest proportion of non-poor people signed up for welfare programs? I have no idea, but maybe this […]
Continue reading...George Will Brings the Paddle Down on “Progressivism’s” Backside
Friday, June 11, 2010
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If you only read on thing this month, make it this article. Liberalism is, at heart, an impossible promise. A promise that in aggregate the peoples of the world can consume more than they produce, that there is “such thing as a free lunch”. Its ideal – the welfare state – is just as big […]
Continue reading...Slavery in America
Monday, January 25, 2010
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Slavery in the United States was officially abolished by the Emancipation Proclamations of 1862 and 1863. That does not mean that there are not people still enslaved in our country. It is not necessarily the kind of slavery that most of us readily identify as such, but a slavery of the spirit. Our welfare system […]
Continue reading...How thoughtful! Inheritor of Oscar Mayer fortune asks billionaires to petition government to increase taxes on many small businesses
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
“Look, mister, there’s two kinds of dumb. A guy that gets naked and runs out in the snow and barks at the moon, and a guy who does the same thing in my living room. First one don’t matter, the second one you’re kinda forced to deal with.” – George from Hoosiers So, we just […]
Continue reading...Anatomy of a Trojan Horse: How Big Government Plans to Take Over Private Health Care and What We Can Learn From Arizona To Stop It
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Last week I attended a luncheon with some other small business people to hear the Arizona State Treasurer address Arizona’s private and public economic status. The Treasurer pulled no punches. The state legislature is deadlocked over the budget and barring either immediate spending cuts or an immediate tax increase the state is 30-60 days away […]
Continue reading...Corruption and Big Government Go Together
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
If you’ve been watching the news, you know that New Jersey has recently been embroiled (yet again) in local and state-level political corruption. The Wall Street Journal published a piece yesterday that ties this corruption in NJ to the cankering influence of Big Government programs and policies and also highlights the malaise the state is […]
Continue reading...“We are from the government and we are here to help you.”
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
It’s very trendy amongst lovers of central power and big government (especially socialists and communists) to state that capitalistic free market economies cause the need for welfare programs. When we hear this from people, we have to be prepared to respond with logical correction. This wrongheaded thinking – that centralized state control “cures” welfare whereas […]
Continue reading...Big Government, Corporate Cronyism, Welfare Dependency
Friday, June 19, 2009
Chances are, if you are a small business owner or employee, your business does not get much business from welfare recipients. Big business get more of the business from welfare recipients. So, what’s going on is that you are paying taxes on your productive labor, that money is being handed to a person who is […]
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
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