…various relief and welfare programs also have their place. This is the rational for fiscal stimulus. Federal spending programs provide real jobs for real people, and they will spend their…

…welfare.” Since none of this activity does anything to create real wealth, it is nothing but rent-seeking. That is bad, in and of itself. Worse, still, in Krugman’s words: “Wall…

…run dry. The public is paying no more attention to that then it is to the other now-decades-old Republican-playbook standards: culture-wars issues, welfare queens, tax “relief” for the wealthy; environmental…

…(or welfare state liberal or economically progressive or whatever the hell you want to call it) and anti-imperial—is that we don’t really have a vigorous national spokesperson for the issues…

…other things that, at best, don’t help. But President Clinton survived “welfare reform“—even though the inevitable consequences were well-noted at the time—because he vetoed bills that were worse than doing…

…the rich and turning Social Security into welfare as we knew it. Fifth.. the Trust Fund treasuries will indeed run out some time around 2030 or 40 or 50. It…

…to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our…

…brothers have a quite clear record of wanting to abolish Social Security, all kinds of federal welfare, minimum wage laws, and similar programs intended to redress the economic imbalance that…

…rather than the power to tax in order to provide for the general welfare (the Tax Clause). And constitutional authority conferred through the Commerce Clause doesn’t become un-conferred by the…

…21 and 24 percentage points, respectively, between 1990 and 2009. In the Netherlands, there were significant changes to pensions and welfare benefits to improve incentives to work longer, coupled with…