Economy Quote by Ludwig von Mises

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

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

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

We may not realize it, but a crucial step in building a healthy economy is helping people move from welfare to work.

— Todd Young

Our upside down welfare state is socialism for the rich, free enterprise for the poor.

— William O. Douglas

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

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's…

— Dennis Prager

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

— Monica Crowley

Socialism is a fundamentally different social system where the world's resources are not controlled by a greedy, undemocratic oligarchy. This is not the same…

— Kshama Sawant

The original purpose of the welfare state was to lift people into self-sufficiency, not to create a permanent underclass dependent on taxpayers.

— Stephen Moore

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 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