…expenditure “handouts” to them over the years. Welfare for corporations is a growing item in our budget–that will likely be added to by the “extenders” bill under consideration at this…

…deficit will be declining substantially, and be at least a partial offset, as the discretionary spending brought about by social welfare expenditures comes down. It’s axiomatic that the faster the…

…that absolute sense of entitlement, but were quite ready to heap piles of scorn on the “welfare queens” and all those ordinary little people who had some sense of being…

…we would now call Movement Conservatism, that strand leading from Landon to Reagan never embraced Social Security and warned against expansion of the concept via Medicare and federalized Welfare programs,…

…welfare-as-we-knew-it. And far less harm than raising the retirement age… a perennial favorite among the folks who have jobs they like, and enough money to retire in their forties when…

…a larger role for government as a mechanism to increase economic welfare than does the Republican Party (generally). A priori, I expect to see more robust government payroll growth during…

…with that for the general good while the wealthy would predictably resist paying taxes for that same general welfare that we should just go with the benefit cuts. Because they…

…Trust Fund” to… “Social Security needs to be reformed… by turning it into welfare”… is not so clear. It seems to me that if the government doesn’t like the consequences…

…the benefits from the people who have paid for them. And subject them to “means testing,” i.e. “welfare,” which Social Security was specifically designed not to be. BK: The fund…

…questionable policy. Among the BRIC countries, India’s welfare measure (per-capita income) is the lowest, and that ranking is not expected to change by 2014 (see chart from a previous post,…