…steal 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. It also…

…distance from the top to the bottom narrows (if one can call dropping from 27,149% to 20,162% a meaningful change). Income distribution is a serious welfare concern from the country…

…affected negatively). Equilibrium doesn’t mean you have achieved ideal social welfare. (Anyone who has looked at Game Theory for more than a minute can tell you that.) But it does…

…advantage from the government guarantee. They have soaked up corporate welfare and loved it, while still fighting with every breath any possibility of a “mortgage cramdown” which would permit homeowners…

…pay, but only the politician wins. Oh, and we lose as well. A politician who represented “the People” would write a law that maximized the positive change in social welfare,…

…gas. In a world in which Goldman, Welfare, Queen & Sachs plays such a prominent role, I worry about what will happen when the folks on Wall Street learn about…

…ever going to try and deal with the main street economy, or is that for historians? Where is the vision for more than the welfare of financials, or multinational companies?…

…end of 2009, but companies wanted it continued. Let’s face it, few corporations that have found a piece of corporate welfare in the Code are interested at all in seeing…

…we could do to “provide for the common defense” and more that we could do to “promote the general welfare”, and maybe this one is so vital that we have…

…billion in all, Taylor’s staff estimated. Contrast the two Mississippi Republican senators’ determined action to get welfare for flooded buildings with their votes against expanding SCHIP health insurance for poor…