Dependent Quote by Thomas Sowell

“The end-game for statists is very obvious. If you expand the bureaucratic class and you expand the dependent class, you can put together a…

— Mark Steyn

Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half…

— James Bovard

This resounding cry of 'welfare to work' enrages me because something like 75% or 80% of people who are on government assistance are already working.

— Stephanie Land

When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who…

— Thomas Sowell

More and more people are becoming aware that government has nothing to give them without first taking it away from somebody else-or from themselves.…

— Henry Hazlitt

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

Those on the downside of rising economic inequality generally do not want government policies that look like handouts. They typically do not want the…

— Robert J. Shiller

Welfare policies never attain those - allegedly beneficial - ends which the government and the self-styled progressives who advocated them wanted to attain, but…

— Ludwig von Mises

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state -…

— Dennis Prager

The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the…

— Bertrand de Jouvenel

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 Welfare State, which begun in Imperial Germany for the truly indigent and disabled, has now become "everybody's entitlement" and an increasing burden on…

— Peter Drucker