Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts
Monday, November 21, 2011
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
The Debt Ceiling and the Welfare state
NY Post columnist Michael Posts asks when did it become the government's primary job to send people checks?
Saturday, June 4, 2011
What the Welfare State has done to the Family Unit
Walter E. Williams, Economist at George Mason argues that part of the break down of the family unit is the welfare state. That the percentage of black children being raised in 1940 by a single parent was 19%, today it is 72%.
He argues simply that if you subsidize something, you get a surplus, and if you tax something, you get less of it. As a society we have come to start subsidizing single mothers.
He argues simply that if you subsidize something, you get a surplus, and if you tax something, you get less of it. As a society we have come to start subsidizing single mothers.
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