(12-14-2021 07:48 AM)MerseyOwl Wrote:  “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”
Milton Friedman, “Tyranny of the Status Quo,” (1984) p. 115
The establishment of new federal entitlement programs will feed the debt in perpetuity and maintain the patronage of a permanent underclass to the Democratic party.
I recall they asked a British voter in a council house (government housing) who they were going to support in the upcoming election and they responded, "I get a better deal with the Labour Party."

But here's the thing. Are they really getting a better deal?

Is giving them a subsistence level existence, coupled with rules and regulations that basically trap them in that subsistence level, really a better deal? Or would increased opportunities to advance above subsistence level be better? Do you give them better council housing, or more and greater opportunities to move out of council housing to something better?