welfare
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Budgets/Taxes
Ocasio-Cortez Never Wants To Hear The Words ‘Free Stuff’ Again
by Chris Talgo January 1, 2020In a town hall in front of her Bronx constituents, Ocasio-Cortez, the self-avowed socialist, decreed, “It’s not that we deserve it because it’s a handout. People like to say, ‘Oh, this is about free stuff.’ This is not about free stuff.”
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Health Care
52 Trillion Reasons to Oppose Warren’s Medicare for All Plan
by Chris Talgo December 5, 2019Warren is resorting to her old, tired class-warfare tactics to gain support for her insane Medicare for All plan. Hopefully, Americans will see right through this socialist sham. Otherwise, they will have 52 trillion reasons to wish they had.
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If there is one common enemy that all opponents of individual liberty, free markets, and limited government seemingly can agree upon it is the “evil” of neo-liberalism.
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Budgets/TaxesLiberty
Abolish the Welfare State to Solve the National Debt Crisis
by Richard Ebeling April 9, 2019Why is it so difficult to win the case for freedom in modern American society?
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernment
Amazon’s Massive Government Contractor Cronyism Receives New Huge Scrutiny
by Seton Motley January 30, 2019We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners.
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The federal Food Stamps Program (FSP), now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), celebrated its 59th anniversary this September.
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Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.”
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After a federal judge blocked Kentucky’s Medicaid work requirement, President Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers released a study that concluded many people who receive Medicaid benefits can work but choose not to.
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In 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, which gave birth to affirmative action.
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Everyone knows that Social Security and Medicare are underfunded. They can only provide the benefits they have promised by borrowing from future taxpayers who are obligated to pay for them.
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Last week, House Republican leaders tried to get a farm bill passed by making changes to the food stamps program.
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Budgets/Taxes
Trump Administration’s Reforms Could Make Welfare Work Again
by Charles Katebi April 27, 2018For decades, America’s various welfare programs have discouraged low-income adults from working and trapped millions in poverty.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcastRegulationTaxes
In The Tank (ep126) – Medicaid Waivers, Maine Welfare Reform, Universal Basic Income, TIDE PODS!
by Donald Kendal February 9, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #126 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Washington Policy Center, the Foundation for Government Accountability, and the Pacific Research Institute.