QUOTE OF THE DAY

“What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a moderate extent, the money is taken away.”

Thomas Sowell

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MrLiberty
MrLiberty
March 1, 2018 11:35 am

You ALWAYS get what you incentivize. It is the same with illegal immigration. People blindly believe in a wall, but don’t want to address the giant piles of “money” sitting on the table for anyone to grab – “free” education, “free” housing, “free” medical care, etc. And since so many in the middle class exploit the “free” education one, nobody ever wants to confront their own complicity or do anything to shift to a free market in education and strictly VOLUNTARY charitable giving.

i forget
i forget
March 1, 2018 1:31 pm

From the top, down. Countries are “welfare” systems; scams.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  i forget
March 1, 2018 2:05 pm

You mean “governments” are welfare systems/scams. Countries are simply arbitrary lines to define where the legal application of violence by the given government will be enshrined in law.

i forget
i forget
  MrLiberty
March 1, 2018 2:10 pm

If that’s what I mean can I expect you to provide examples of gov-less countries? Countries are the shells that gov snails & crabs live in.

NoneYaBiz
NoneYaBiz
  MrLiberty
March 1, 2018 2:20 pm

Countries are simply arbitrary lines to define where the legal application of violence by the gang of thugs known as government will be enshrined in law.

There fixed it…

i forget
i forget
  NoneYaBiz
March 1, 2018 2:23 pm

That works, too.