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.
25 Questions For Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
You can’t be morally right and factually wrong at the same time. That’s a big problem for collectivists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Arkansas’s Successful Work Requirements For Food Stamps Should Be Replicated With Medicaid
Work requirements for able-bodied adults have immense potential to lift low-income families up and help them break the cycle of dependency.
Studies Indicate Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion Bought Democrats Votes
Giving people government health subsidies increases their voting registration, turnout, and likelihood of voting Democrat, says a New York Times article about three recent studies plus midterm results.
The U.S. Gamble With National Debt Makes Playing The Lottery Look Smart
The truth is that we are the problem. Our benefits are ordinary, even small, to us, but collectively they are large enough to bankrupt our nation.
How Federal Grants Are Turning State Governments Against Their Own People
Almost a third of the money in many state government budgets now comes directly from Washington, D.C. But why are federal taxpayers paying for Wisconsin’s bike paths?
When The U.S. Goes Bankrupt, Here’s Who Gets Out With The Least Pain
According to a recent estimate, the combined pension hole of all U.S. states and cities is now equal to the world’s fourth-largest economy, Germany. Also, Medicare has no money in eight years.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Promising Americans The Same Thing Hugo Chavez Promised Now-Starving Venezuelans
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invites America to chart a course towards a socialist mirage that barely obscures so many wrecks of nations that have heeded the same call.
Republicans Are Spending Your Money Like There’s No Tomorrow
When does lavish federal spending get reined in? Not when there’s a Republican Congress, apparently.
I’m On Welfare, And That’s How I Know It Needs To Be Abolished
The welfare state as currently constituted systematically discriminates against the poorest, sickest, and most vulnerable.
Mitch McConnell And Democrats Mutually Reassure Our National Destruction From Entitlements
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should be reminded that two wrongs don’t make a right.
5 Myths About Arkansas’s Work Requirements For Medicaid Recipients, Debunked
All of the hysterics about less than 2 percent of Arkansas’ able-bodied expansion enrollees losing their taxpayer-funded benefits are just that—hysterics.
Open Borders Are Not Libertarian So Long As America Is A Welfare State
What morality—and what electoral strategy—prioritizes the right of a Honduran to cross the border over the right of an American not to be forced to feed, house, and clothe her family?
Why Income Inequality Is Not A Good Reason To Support Socialism
Despite the fever dreams of the radical American left, almost three-quarters of Americans will be in the top 20 percent of income earners at some point in their lives.
‘The New Politics Of Sex’ Explains How Sexual Libertinism Grows Government
Stephen Baskerville’s book, ‘The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties and the Growth of Government Power,’ is a no-holds barred polemic against sexual libertinism that makes a few unfortunate missteps.
Why There’s No Such Thing As Local Government Any More, And What To Do About It
Nonprofits, states, and local governments now typically behave like big-box stores: same entity, different location. Maybe the aisles run side to side instead of front to back, but largely everything is the same.
How Redistributing Wealth To Promote The American Dream Has Actually Undermined It
A question most people never have to bother with is: Once you and your family have achieved success in America, what do you do now?
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