Afford Quote by Grover Norquist

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

We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary…

— Michael Portillo

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

People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of…

— Mitt Romney

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

When there is no welfare state then the system is free.

— Javier Milei

Taxation is not charity. It is not voluntary. As we shrink the state and make government smaller, we will find that more and more…

— Grover Norquist

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their…

— Thomas Sowell

It's a mistake to think that poor people get the benefit from the welfare system. It's a total fraud. Most welfare go to the…

— Ron Paul

Welfare makes you dependent upon someone to take care of you.

— Charles Evers

we come to realize that other people's welfare is just as important as our own. In helping them, we help ourselves. In helping ourselves,…

— Pema Chodron

Government welfare programs contribute to the disintegration of poor families. They make women and children dependent on government; dependent for food, for clothing, for…

— Hans F. Sennholz