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Welfare Humor that Will Get You Pissed Off
FROM INTERNATIONAL LIBERTY February 16, 2012 by Dan Mitchell
After a series of posts making fun of libertarians (here, here, here, here, and here), it’s time to aim some humor at the left. Even if it means a lame pun in the title.
This poster is funny, but it also makes a serious point about whether there should be behavioral restrictions on people who want to live off taxpayers (sort of akin to the debate about whether food stamp recipients should be allowed to buy junk food).
My view is that the answer to the welfare problem is decentralization. Let fifty states and thousands of communities take responsibility for redistribution policy.
This will mean diversity and innovation, which will help give us answers to how to help the genuinely needy with ripping off taxpayers and/or trapping poor people in lives of dependency.
Maybe drug testing is a good idea. Maybe it’s not. But we won’t find out with a one-size-fits-all policy from Washington.
This interview and this video have more information for those who want a more detailed look at anti-poverty issues.
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“Be not intimidated…nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.” — John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765
“There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” –Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, 1776
TALON’S POINT reblogged this; but the article’s hyperlinks didn’t post as such. I repost ( to preserve the hyperlinks) and thanks to both bloggers for this item. ”X”
Welfare Humor that Will Get You Pissed Off
FROM INTERNATIONAL LIBERTY February 16, 2012 by Dan Mitchell
After a series of posts making fun of libertarians (here, here, here, here, and here), it’s time to aim some humor at the left. Even if it means a lame pun in the title.
This poster is funny, but it also makes a serious point about whether there should be behavioral restrictions on people who want to live off taxpayers (sort of akin to the debate about whether food stamp recipients should be allowed to buy junk food).
My view is that the answer to the welfare problem is decentralization. Let fifty states and thousands of communities take responsibility for redistribution policy.
This will mean diversity and innovation, which will help give us answers to how to help the genuinely needy with ripping off taxpayers and/or trapping poor people in lives of dependency.
Maybe drug testing is a good idea. Maybe it’s not. But we won’t find out with a one-size-fits-all policy from Washington.
This interview and this video have more information for those who want a more detailed look at anti-poverty issues.
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Posted by PARTNERING WITH EAGLES on February 17, 2012 in COMMENTARY and tagged anti-poverty, behavioral restrictions, drug testing, food stamp recipients, welfare.
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“Be not intimidated…nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.” — John Adams (1735-1826) Founding Father, 2nd US President, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1765 “There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.” –Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, 1776