How Your Tax Dollars Pay For Children To Grow Up In Broken Homes
Unmarried couples lose federal subsidies and tax benefits if they get married. Government shouldn’t penalize marriage, and it should work to have people support themselves.
New Study Confirms That The Welfare State Discourages Work
New research shows how America’s tangled web of welfare programs often trap generations in a cycle of poverty and hurt those who need the most help.
Congress Made Economic Crisis Worse By Incentivizing Unemployment Over Earning A Paycheck
By spiking unemployment benefits with an additional $600 a week, Congress made it more profitable to file for taxpayer handouts than remain employed.
Why Bigger Government Is A Worse Threat To Civil Liberties Than Lockdowns
The real threat of government expansion is not lockdown, but the introduction of well-intentioned, but dangerously-designed emergency relief programs.
Democrats In Congress Won’t Let Andrew Cuomo Fight Medicaid Fraud
That senior Democrats in Congress tied the hands of a governor from their own speaks to how leftists will fight tooth-and-nail to maintain every facet of the welfare state.
Why Congress’s Trillion-Dollar Coronavirus Bailouts Will Shackle The U.S. Economy
Like the New Deal, every additional billion dollars in stimulus and bailout spending will further delay the economic recovery we all want and need.
Why Bernie Sanders’s Dream Of Turning The United States Into Scandinavia Is Stupid
Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to transform the United States into Scandinavia. That should fill you with skepticism.
Woman Who Killed Baby Over Maternity Leave Proves Welfare Won’t Fix Abortion
A perfect example of the ‘give us socialism or we’ll kill the kids’ genre was recently published in The Guardian.
Trump’s State Of The Union Proposed A New, New Deal
In essence, the president told Americans he agrees with Democrats that we need a big, energetic government, but not their kind of big, energetic government.
No, The Government Can’t Buy You Happiness With Other People’s Money
Jill Filipovic says the words ‘pursuit of happiness’ in the Declaration of Independence mean that ‘government must facilitate the ability of the individual to seek happiness,’ which to her means redistributing people’s labor.
What’s Really Inside Trump’s New Rule Requiring Immigrants To Pay Their Own Health Care
Contrary to claims that the proclamation constitutes a ‘racist attack on a community who deserves health care,’ the order says not a word about a specific race, or national or ethnic group.
Yes, Immigrants Should Be Less Dependent On U.S. Welfare, And So Should Everyone Else
Immigration regulation that requires work instead of welfare has been a part of our laws for more than a century, and is based on legal theories that predate the founding of the republic.
How Socialism Ruined Greece
Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the first republic, is now in horrific economic disarray, with Greeks fleeing to find new opportunity abroad.
Socialism Didn’t Work In Sweden, And It Won’t Work In America
Bernie Sanders and AOC point to the brief window of Swedish socialism’s artificial success before Sweden crumbled under its reality.
African Americans Don’t Need Reparations. We Need To Take Responsibility For Our Lives
African Americans have had many opportunities to put ourselves on equal footing with other Americans and pursue the American Dream. But too many of us have failed to do so.
Why It Doesn’t Matter For Abortion If Pro-Lifers Don’t Care About People After They’re Born
Whether pro-life people are saints or bigots, whether or not they support our various political views, we still have to decide whether we are okay with killing the unborn.
Americans Want A Welfare State, So Paid Leave Should Be Done The Least Stupid Way
Small government conservatives naturally fear making common cause with the welfare state, but facing a 50 percent margin against them in popular opinion, it might be time to abandon outright opposition.
12 Reasons Government Paid Leave Impoverishes Newborns And The Nation
Paid leave programs operate on the assumption that working full-time away from their family ought to be the default for mothers of very small children. In fact, that life arrangement is devastating to children and society.
Open Borders Is Just Another Form Of Foreign Intervention Doomed To Fail
The United States cannot save the world by opening our borders. Its ills are too great and numerous.
How To Explain That Seizing Money From The Rich Ruins The Economy For Everyone
Conservatives need to start talking about the rich as ‘fountainheads’ and ‘Atlases,’ individuals who are indispensable to wealth creation and general prosperity.
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