It’s okay to fantasize about the world we’d like to see, but fantasy is no basis on which to craft public policy.
Tag - entitlements
As always, the middle will be screwed by the margins. The young and childless and the old and childlike will try to fleece one another, only to settle their sights on the easiest mark: the tax-paying, burden-carrying median.
We know how to alleviate poverty. Remove barriers to work and to opportunity while securing individual rights and equality before the law. Yet, time and time again, we see more spending on entitlement programs that accomplish nothing except nurturing dependence and an imbalance of power.