Category: Welfare

Why some countries look a lot better on paper than others

Cato Institute analyses Corporate Welfare in America.

"Corporate welfare in the federal budget costs taxpayers almost $100 billion a year. Policymakers claim that business subsidies are needed to fix alleged market failures or to help American companies better compete in the global economy. However, corporate welfare often subsidizes failing and mismanaged businesses and induces firms to spend more time on lobbying rather than on making better products."

Cato analyses the wasteful and damaging spending in Washington supporting well connected business and pet projects in an never ending cycle of cronyism. Over $100 billion a year go out of the federal budget in corporate welfare every year at the expense of the taxpayers and future generations.

Federal Corporate Welfare currently costs more than $100 billion per year. Cata analyses the problem of special interests and policymakers additions to welfare.

The owner of Express, a large part time employment agency, shares his experiences to show how Obamacare is decreasing employers willingness to hire full time employees. He also discusses how disability and unemployment benefits decrease the incentive to work, how many American workers have lost their work ethic and need basic work skills (due to the entitlement mentality), how minimum wage laws decrease job availability, and how other policies are negatively affecting the country.

No government can guarantee security. It can only tax production, distribution and service and gradually crush the power to pay taxes. … It only uses up the gains of the past and postpones the developments of the future.

Security is a false god; begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

The trouble with complete security is its drab monotony. A life without the impetus of work and struggle is only half a life, and most of us would settle down to complete inertia if we did not have to work to eat.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.