…us into “a nation of takers”, and stop denouncing these programs beneficiaries as “moochers”? It is in some ways very odd. It used to be that critics of the welfare…

…Medicare. What we ought to be doing is cutting the military/defense and corporate welfare budgets. And then increasing taxes–with (1) new layers of tax brackets and tax rates corresponding to…

…problem Zakaria… and Peterson… carefully do not address. Because Peterson’s agenda is ENTIRELY the destruction of Social Security, despite what he says. Medicaid is entirely on budget; it is welfare….

…This paper proposes a novel mechanism for reallocating temporary water flows or permanent water rights. The All-in-Auction (AiA) increases efficiency and social welfare by reallocating water without harming water rights…

…increases (faster) with redistribution in both directions — from rich to poor and poor to rich. (Note that redistribution could take infinite forms — traditional welfare, education and health-care spending,…

…of the sovereign right of the government to protect the … general welfare of the people, and is paramount to any rights under contracts between individuals.’ 199 U.S. at page…

…cutting Social Security. At some point people will not have enough SS benefits to live. At that point the Congress may have to pay “welfare” to those people out of…

…doesn’t require cuts to social welfare programs, it might be advisable to let the fiscal cliff occur. Let the spending cuts go through and let the Bush tax cuts expire….

…in subsidies from government. This is particularly hypocritical since as a Senate candidate McMahon has tried to portray herself as an opponent of “corporate welfare.” Besides having little bang for…

…lobbying organizations–less regulation, more privatization, more reductions to earned benefits like Medicare and Social Security, and more tax provisions that favor the rich that the GOP labels–without empirical support– as…