The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous. — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes. — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“the military has become a substitute welfare state for a large swath of small-town America. In a sense, the military—despite its reputation… — Rosa Brooks Copy Share Image
Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job… — Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Copy Share Image
“if we could tax Americans' cognitive dissonance we could balance the budget. The American people want all kinds of incompatible things, they're… — George f. Will Copy Share Image
“The colonel stood up. “I hope you enjoy your trip to Uruguay. Its government is stable, democratic, and politically mature. There’s even… — Philip Kerr Copy Share Image
“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“You say, "There are men who have no money," and you apply the law. But the law is not a self-supplied fountain,… — Bastiat, Frederick Copy Share Image
The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to increase our spending on research and development by 25%. That's something the U.S. does very well. That dynamism alongside… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero Copy Share Image
John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing… — Robert H. Frank Copy Share Image
“But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
We have a number of very powerful women in the world now - Mrs. [Angela] Merkel, who the Germans call Mutti. What… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The welfare state corrupts family life. Even Democrats have acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the underclass. It has… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of… — Nancy Birdsall Copy Share Image
The biggest threat to the American people today lies with the United States government. ... [T]he long-term solution is to dismantle, not… — Jacob G. Hornberger Copy Share Image
The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“the welfare states of western Europe were not politically divisive. They were socially re-distributive in general intent (some more than others) but… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence,… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
“But one of the main reasons why Denmark does so well in international happiness surveys is the welfare state, as it reduces… — Meik Wiking Copy Share Image
“Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain - which is to say,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“In a study Suzanne Mettler asked 1,400 Americans whether they had used a government social program. Fifty-seven percent said they had not.… — Anu Partanen Copy Share Image
“Franklin D. Roosevelt became the architect of the American welfare state. However, Roosevelt was concerned that the institution he was fostering would… — Nima Sanandaji Copy Share Image
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding… — George Will Copy Share Image
Britain cannot afford to allow a culture of Left-wing-dominated, single-issue activism to hold back our country from investing in infrastructure and new… — Chris Grayling Copy Share Image
American critics of welfare statism are often surprised to learn that countries like West Germany, with a much more comprehensive welfare state… — Robert Kuttner Copy Share Image
In Europe there's an dangerous growth of ultra xenophobia which is pretty threatening to any one who remembers the history of Europe...… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an… — Jacques Delors Copy Share Image
Ultimately, Boris Johnson and the political and financial support behind his Brexit project are probably the biggest threat to both British democracy… — Clive Lewis Copy Share Image
Our expensive welfare state is fueled by the destructive notion that 'greed' is when you want to keep your own money but… — Lawrence Reed Copy Share Image
Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment… — Heather Mac Donald Copy Share Image
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