Social Welfare System Quotes

The more the state gives to its citizens, the less they have to earn. That is the basic concept of the welfare state - you receive almost everything you need without having to earn any of it. About half of Americans now pay no federal income tax - but they receive all government benefits just as if they had paid for, i.e., earned them.

We shouldn't turn the safety net into a hammock. It should actually be a safety net.

The welfare state may be well-intentioned, but it is a Ponzi scheme

Government aid programs have been endlessly expanded, and the government has sought to maximize the number of people willing to accept handouts..... Roughly half of all Americans are dependent on the government, either for handouts, pensions, or paychecks.

Compassion is good but politicians have turned compassion into the welfare state.

Ironically, in the full-fledged transfer society, where governments busy themselves redistributing income by means of hundreds of distinct programs, hardly anyone is better off as a result.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

A welfare state is frightened of every poor person who tries to get in and every rich person who tries to get out.

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

[Canada's social welfare system is] an overgenerous reinsurance policy for an underachieving people.

Quite a lot of British women stop working when they have children, and that is rarely the case in Denmark. We have a very flat, structured way of approaching everything. Nobody's the boss. In a sense, we're all equal.