Burden Quote by Peter Drucker

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

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 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

“We are living now in what is known as the Welfare State, which means – broadly – that everybody is completely destitute.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

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

— Stephen Moore

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

Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are…

— Thomas Sowell

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

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long term, we…

— Paul Achleitner

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

“The entry of government into social insurance and then into a broader range of social interventions has caused incalculable human suffering. It has not…

— Charles Murray