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An Honest Liberal Confronts the Problem of Government Dependency

TooTired Wrote: Dec 11, 2012 8:36 PM

I will try to respond politely to you and to FLM, while sitting here in my McMansion...no, wait, I forgot. I live in a modular home--a doublewide to some--although it is a nice one, and one that I am very content in. Let me state, however, that I might know something more about welfare than you do, as I am a food stamp/medical assistance (you might call it Medicaid) caseworker. None of us know exactly how many welfare recipients are abusing the system, not even those of us in the business. And what is abuse? Is it fraud? There's plenty--PLENTY--of that. I have no reason to believe that it's any worse in my office than it is anywhere else. Is it people who are not trying to find a way out of poverty? Yeah, lots of that, too.

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An Honest Liberal Confronts the Problem of Government Dependency

I’ve written and pontificated about the problem of government-created dependency and how the welfare state traps people in poverty.

I also shared this dramatic chart showing how redistribution programs create shockingly high implicit marginal tax rates for those with modest incomes.

But when a liberal writer for the New York Times basically comes to the same conclusion, that’s a sign that there may finally be some consensus about the...