Social Welfare

[Professor S]

I found this on-line and the debate facinated me:

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Does it create a cycle of poverty and dependence?

Does it offer respite for thoise who truly need it and would be lost without it until they find employment?

Both?

What are your thoughts on welfare?

[Dylflon]

I'd say both.

[Typhoid]

With every system, you'll get people who abuse it. In this situation it's the people who take advantage of the money, and don't make any attempt to get a job. But for every one of those people, there's a family who actually needs it to get by.

I don't think welfare causes poverty, so much as indirectly promotes it through no real consequence (meaning not getting money at all), but it definitely creates dependence.

[Bond]

LibertyPen posts a lot of quality Libertarian videos on YouTube, such as Milton Friedman's series "Free to Choose."

Government subsidies are all about indirect consequences.

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