Believe Quote by Arnold Kling

Welfare now erodes work and family and thus keeps poor people poor. Accompanying welfare is an ideology - sustaining a whole system of federal…

— George Gilder

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members…

— Alan Greenspan

The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism.

— Ludwig von Mises

The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those truly needy…

— Grover Norquist

I believe that investing in welfare is crucial - but I also believe that it only works if you're getting help to those who…

— Grant Shapps

The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically wrong: forcing…

— Joseph Sobran

The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.

— P. J. O'Rourke

What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they…

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare system is the breeding ground of crime, addiction and radical politics.

— James Cook

The welfare state destroys the market mechanisms - lessens free choice and willing exchange. Simultaneously creating unnatural specializations, it must, granted statism's premise, resort…

— Leonard Read

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

Contrary to what many people believe, the welfare state was originally a 'rightwing' invention. It was the arch-conservative Otton von Bismarck who first introduced…

— Ha-Joon Chang