…because he favors a “tax the rich” solution… without understanding that that will turn Social Security into welfare as we knew it, and lead to its ultimate destruction by those…

…Right are interested in actually solving the SS shortfall. The Right wants to kill Social Security by calling it welfare. The Left wants to kill Social Security by turning it…

…the age you will be allowed to retire, or turn Social Security into welfare as we knew it (which will lead very soon to cut benefits and increases in the…

…United Kingdom, says while economists argue GDP was never meant to measure welfare, nearly everyone assumes it does just that. “GDP is shorthand for welfare,” says Coyle. “So, if it’s…

…target welfare, Medicare, Medicaid spending in 2018, Washington Post (Dec. 6, 2017) (“Republicans will aim next year to reduce spending on both federal health care and anti-poverty programs, citing the…

…remarkable thing about the normative side of economics, the welfare interpretation of markets, is that its sole role is to enable positive analysis to yield normative conclusions. Once you accept…

…soybean farmer welfare. His take on the Constitution: “I have the right to do whatever I want.” (Translation: “When you’re a star, they let you do it.”) His approach to…

…newly unemployed. I think it should also go to families which have no labor income even if they have long had no labor income. In other words, I advocate welfare,…

…it]… 1971 when Dick Nixon dusted it off as a cudgel to bludgeon those folks driving around in their Welfare Cadillacs — we all know who they are — and the nattering…

…the utter and complete failure of capitalism. Social Security, unemployment, and Welfare were implicit admissions of this failure. Capitalism had spectacularly failed to provide for labor, therefore capitalism should have…