Better off Quote by Robert Higgs

Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services,…

— Robert Higgs

Practically all government attempts to redistribute wealth and income tend to smother productive incentives and lead toward general impoverishment.

— Henry Hazlitt

In the transfer society, the general public is not only poorer but also less contented, less autonomous, more rancorous, and more politicized. Individuals take…

— Robert Higgs

Recipients of transfers tend to become less self-reliant and more dependent on government payments. When people can get support without exercising their own abilities…

— Robert Higgs

It's true that redistributing income to the needy is politically easier in a growing economy than in a stagnant one.

— Robert Reich

Transfer payments discourage the recipients from earning income in the present and from investing in their potential to earn income in the future. People…

— Robert Higgs

“Economic institutions that create incentives for economic progress may simultaneously redistribute income and power in such a way that a predatory dictator and others…

— Daron Acemoğlu

Unfortunately, it is not in the power of government to make everyone more prosperous. Government can only raise the income of one person by…

— Hans F. Sennholz

Individuals usually do a better job than the government.

— Rob Lowe

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most…

— Jim DeMint

“PROFESSOR’S TEASER Here is an interesting teaser from Harvard economics professor Greg Mankiw, in a blog post entitled ‘A quick note on a universal…

— Guy Standing

“Yet today, all over the developed world, welfare states are on shaky ground. The tax rates necessary to sustain the massive transfer programs are…

— David Boaz