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At a time our country faces a massive recession brought on by the coronavirus lockdowns, America’s welfare state exacerbates that stagnation. Ronald Reagan had an old adage about the nine most terrifying words in the English language: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Recently, a new paper reinforced that truth and adds to the existing literature showing how America’s welfare state often traps generations in a cycle of poverty.At its core, a complicated set of welfare programs and tax breaks generate sizable incentives for many low-income Americans not to increase their incomes and improve their station in...

Radical environmentalists have occasionally argued that the life of one member of an endangered species is worth more than the life of one member of the human race. Judging by the money it is spending on the Mexican wolf reintroduction program, federal and state governments seem to agree with this extremist viewpoint. $400,000 per Wolf Since the Mexican wolf reintroduction program was launched more than a decade ago, millions of dollars have been spent by the United States, Arizona and New Mexico governments. The goal was to reestablish a target population of 100 wolves in the mountainous areas of southwestern...

WASHINGTON - Emblazoned on every page of President Obama's budget are the words: "A New Era of Responsibility." That would be a responsibility for you to fork over more taxes. That would be a responsibility for your company to pay even higher taxes. That would be a responsibility for you to foot the bill for one of the largest expansions of government welfare in history. Obama's budget schemes to drain staggering amounts of money from people who worked for it and steer it to people who didn't. This isn't the free market. It's the freeloader market. "It is not just...

I was not sure where to post this, but I thought some here would like to see more Government Welfare, for Government employees, FBI,COE, etc.A friend drives a large commuter bus part time and he says this is how most of the government employees pay for their bus fare. Some bring in $170 dollars worth at a time. Does anyone know the details?">" ALT="some text" WIDTH=32 HEIGHT=32>