The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state has always been judged by its good intentions, rather than its bad results. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state. — Thomas Sowell 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
Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The biggest and most deadly 'tax' rate on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare state benefits - food stamps,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no bigger waste of time than doing 90% of what is necessary. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“In 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy, like both Democratic and Republican Presidents and Secretaries of the Treasury in earlier years, pointed out that “it… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Ideological bigotry has become the norm on even our most prestigious campuses, where students can go for years without reading or hearing anything that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“One third of all Scots in the mid-nineteenth century moved from one county to another” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The difference is that we have the hardest and most painful evidence that there was a Holocaust. But, for the global warming scenario that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Just as price fluctuations allocate scarce resources which have alternative uses, price controls which limit those fluctuations reduce the incentives for individuals to limit… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
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