Tagged with "the welfare state"

Britain and Europe's Welfare Jihad

Welcome to Britain and Europe's Welfare Jihad. It's one thing to commit economic suicide by allowing people to loaf around on state benefits. It's quite another to pay them to start blowing up modern society. Civilisational suicide, anyone?
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 2 June 2015
Dependency, work and the growing welfare state

You can't create wealth and lift people out of poverty by strangling the work ethic. But that is the favourite hobby of the political classes whose social populism has led to ballooning welfare programmes
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 28 April 2015
Labour’s lust for Benefits Street Britain

For many years Labour prepared the foundations and constructed the architecture of Benefits Street Britain. So cruel was their welfare trap that our country will take decades to recover from it
by Steven George-Hilley - 23 June 2014
America should copy Europe…if the goal Is stagnation

If it's higher living standards that are the goal, it's Hong Kong and Singapore that America should be copying, not France and Italy
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 29 April 2014
How to sponge off taxpayers, and do it in style

To be honest, cutting off your own foot to maintain handouts from the state sets something of a low point in welfare sponging. But boy, are there some competitors...
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 23 April 2014
Welfare multiplied by demographics equals doom

Any type of pay-as-you-go welfare state becomes increasingly expensive when there are more and more old people and fewer and fewer young workers. See the killer graph showing why some nations are doomed
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 10 February 2014
Britain shows America the need for "poverty porn"

Television reality shows in Britain exposing welfare fraud are getting the mass explosion in UK welfare on the agenda. The squishy Cameron government is at least under pressure for change. America needs that too
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 25 January 2014
Whatever happened to that "Anglo-Saxon" model?

Mainly, your preconceptions about welfare basket case countries will be right. Yes. The proportion of GDP spent on welfare in France is phenomenal. But the trend in that direction in the US and Britain will knock you off your chair too
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 18 January 2014
How welfare redistributes income from Blacks to Whites

Remarkable study from Left-leaning institute says welfare redistributes from Hispanics, blacks, and other people of colour to whites. This will put the cat among the Left's ideological pigeons
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 4 January 2014
A merry Christmas for Washington's parasite class

Simply stated, government is a racket that benefits the DC political elite by taking money from average people in America (it's the same in Europe too). Corrupt insiders are using your money to buy their Christmas presents
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 23 December 2013
Welfare state as the Ghost of Christmas Past

Scrooge would have loved putting people on welfare. Chain them to a life of state dependency and then rich socialists can just forget about them and turn charity into a dirty word
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 20 December 2013
The coming fall of the welfare state

If we really want to help the less fortunate, private charity does a far better job – and Americans (unlike Europeans) still have the genuine compassion that exists when you spend your own money
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 13 November 2013
The perverse economics of Obamacare: Earn less, get more

Based on the theory that there will always be some suckers who work hard to provide the subsidies, Obamacare tells people that they can get more by producing less
by Daniel J. Mitchell - 20 October 2013
Martin Luther King did not argue for welfare dependency

Whatever the Left may have convinced itself, Martin Luther King wanted to liberate black people from legal disabilities but he also wanted African Americans to take responsibility for self-improvement
by Vincent Cooper - 3 September 2013
What happens when the money runs out?

If there are no deep structural reforms, in the long run this Western welfare business model will collapse. And there will be dire consequences
by Vincent Cooper - 11 July 2013