Crime Quote by Joseph Sobran

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

— James Cook

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of…

— Thomas Sowell

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest,…

— Martin Durkin

I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease…

— Arnold Kling

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

The history of the welfare state is the history of public enterprise pushing out private organization. The impact was largely unintentional, but natural and…

— Doug Bandow

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

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

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

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

“This was never about welfare. You can have almost any opinion about welfare, you can be bitterly opposed to its very existence, and you…

— Matt Taibbi