How America Drifted From Welfare to "Entitlement". James Payne and others.
by Payne, James; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 25Business. Publisher: American Enterprise, 2005ISSN: 1522-3191;.Subject(s): Bush | Chaotic behavior in systems | Chile -- Economic policy | Entitlement attitudes | Entitlement spending | Food stamps | Home ownership | Housing -- Prices | Investments | Pension trusts | Pensions | Property | Public welfare | Retirement income | Social security | Social security -- Privatization | SubsidiesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Most modern Americans view government handouts as natural and necessary. We happily endorse payments for the poor, to the rich, for the middle class, to college students, for apple growers, opera lovers, cotton farmers, electricity consumers, feminist poets, and endless others. People may quibble about the exact operation of these subsidies, and some worry about their aggregate cost. But practically no one questions their premise--that it is right for government to make grants of taxpayer funds to individuals, groups, or businesses. If we don't have programs to subsidize cellists or the makers of argyle socks, it's not because the public thinks they would be wrong, destructive, or immoral. We just haven't gotten around to them yet." (AMERICAN ENTERPRISE) The author discusses the onerous concern about the Social Security system and the exact distribution of subsidies of which taxpayers themselves are not even aware of where their contributions go.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006.
Originally Published: How America Drifted From Welfare to "Entitlement", March 2005; pp. 26-49.
"Most modern Americans view government handouts as natural and necessary. We happily endorse payments for the poor, to the rich, for the middle class, to college students, for apple growers, opera lovers, cotton farmers, electricity consumers, feminist poets, and endless others. People may quibble about the exact operation of these subsidies, and some worry about their aggregate cost. But practically no one questions their premise--that it is right for government to make grants of taxpayer funds to individuals, groups, or businesses. If we don't have programs to subsidize cellists or the makers of argyle socks, it's not because the public thinks they would be wrong, destructive, or immoral. We just haven't gotten around to them yet." (AMERICAN ENTERPRISE) The author discusses the onerous concern about the Social Security system and the exact distribution of subsidies of which taxpayers themselves are not even aware of where their contributions go.
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