welfare state

fascism

socialism

is not about the welfare of the masses... rather, it is about the egos of the elites.

The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites. Thomas Sowell

is responsible for the disintegration of the black family, despite it having survived centuries of slavery and generations of jim crow.

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state. Thomas Sowell

is a sort of state that cannot also be a free immigration state insofar as it promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence.

Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing. Milton Friedman

is the supposition that security comes from the ever more effective control by human beings of their material and social environments.

The welfare state is tied into the basic suppositions of modernity that security comes from the ever more effective control by human beings of their material and socail environments' (Giddens 1999:10)

is one that assumes responsibility for the health, happiness and general well-being of all its citizens except the tax-payer.

A welfare state is one that assumes responsibility for the health, happiness and general well-being of all its citizens except the tax-payer.

is a failure --- the more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

is an untenable scheme predicated on collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them, because today's workers don't have enough money to sustain it.

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 workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

is perhaps well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

welfare state, n.All

welfare state