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BOLDIN: Government Welfare Makes Things Worse

Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Warning “Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.” That was James Madison, explaining that the modern federal welfare state is not authorized by the Constitution.  Despite that, politicians today still insist that these programs aren’t just authorized; they’re also absolutely necessary to help people. But they ignore the … Read more

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SMITH: Dear Senate, Please Help People Help Themselves

We have a 16:8 red senate, but after yesterday’s session, the casual or first-time observer might never guess that!  Not only was Victoria Sullivan’s SNAP reform bill transformed into a study committee like murder that doesn’t involve violence, but the whole body approved a Dem bill to make more students eligible for the school lunch … Read more

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BOVARD: Food Stamps and the Federal War on Self-Reliance

During the recent government shutdown, the temporary interruption of benefits to 42 million food stamp recipients was hyped as practically the greatest human rights violation of our time. A Nation magazine headline howled: “The United States Is Letting Its People Starve.” But the delayed payments had scant impact in part because many states offered supplemental benefits, many recipients had … Read more

Morning Update: Women and Children

Today, on Morning Update, how Your President isn’t letting Democrats take low-income women and their children hostage as part of the Left’s unnecessary shutdown. Links: Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its sponsors, readers, authors, or advertisers. Got Something to Say, We Want to Hear It. … Read more

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MacDonald: Welfare Queen

From the “found in the inbox” files, some text and a TikTok from a reasonably young lady who not only doesn’t want to work, but also says she has no idea how. I don’t want to work. I told her she is not going to take my food stamps, she is not going to take … Read more

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Underwood: Feeling (Instead of Thinking) about Education

There is great value, when considering a question, to instead consider a generalization of the question.  Then, having answered the more general question, you get the answers to more specialized versions for free, and you know they’re consistent with each other. This is actually a pretty large part of what we call thinking. Here’s an … Read more

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Welfare Choice

Suppose someone said:  I live in this state, but that state offers more generous welfare benefits.  So I should be able to live here, but collect benefits from there.  Or suppose someone said:  I live in this county, but that county has a better nursing home, so I’d like my elderly mother to be cared … Read more

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Subsidies For All!

So, Governor Ayotte is moving us down the road towards universal eligibility for Education Freedom Accounts (EFAs).  Awesome! Now what will she do to move us towards universal eligibility for food stamps, and heating oil subsidies, and housing assistance? While I don’t need any of those subsidies, I would certainly like to have them.  And … Read more

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EFAs Should Not be Universal

One of the many problems with universal EFAs is that they take money from people who don’t have it, to give to people who don’t need it. Let’s ask a straightforward question: Under what conditions should we give tax money to, or spend tax money on, people who can afford to get along without it? … Read more

Federal Commission To Propose Changes To Social Security

They can say it is bipartisan, which is rare in a Congress with a more secure boundary between the two Parties than our southern border. But I think you can also call it a Hail Mary when the proposed bill is sponsored by two Senators who have announced their retirement from public service.

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Political Accountability Isn’t

Recently, I came across yet another in a long line of calls for ‘holding accountable those who are supposed to serve us.’  In this case, the writer was talking about public schools. Yes, we should definitely do that.  We should hold accountable the people who operate our public school system.

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Call Them What They Are: Welfare Schools

Anyone who knows me has heard me quote Confucius:  The first step towards wisdom is to call things by their right names. What we call things determines how we think about them and how we act toward them. This is why it’s time for us to stop using the term public school and replace it with … Read more

‘Your money should follow my child’

A chant that has been gaining popularity is that where education is concerned, ‘the money should follow the child’.  A second, related chant is that ‘parents should be able to decide how to spend their education dollars’.

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Government Welfare and Tax Rules Kill Families

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) released a research report Thursday. It argues the design of welfare programs likely keeps some American couples from marriage. Those couples might otherwise get married. If they did marry it would benefit society. Marriage provides empirically validated benefits.

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School funding alone won’t help children out of poverty

To The Daily Sun, Haley Thomas’s 1/29/20 letter makes valid points about childhood and generational poverty, and their negative effects on peoples’ lives. But Thomas’s apparent solution, increased school funding, is simply inadequate, and, based on decades of history, unlikely to improve educational results or reduce poverty. Calling for school funding increases may make people … Read more

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