Chance Quote by Ha-Joon Chang

We need to make sure that people are progressively better off in work than they would be on welfare.

— Grant Shapps

Quality child care, health insurance coverage, and training make it possible for former welfare recipients to get, and keep, jobs.

— Mel Carnahan

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system…

— Emily Thornberry

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

The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of…

— Thomas Sowell

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

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

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

Over time, the welfare state has become dysfunctional in a surprising way. But in a way it became a victim of its own success:…

— Niall Ferguson

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

— Harry Browne

“The welfare state and its funding are at the center of current political debate in the United States. Today, the country is divided on…

— Werner Neff

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

— Ludwig von Mises