Bases Quote by Mark Skousen

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

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

— Larry Elder

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

The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed -- socialism doesn't work,

— Rand Paul

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

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

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically…

— Charles A. Murray

For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of…

— John C. Goodman

For one thing, Medicaid is an inefficient if not ineffective platform for redistributing income. It doesn't get the dollars to poor people in forms…

— Scott Gottlieb

The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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