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Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welfare State. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Patrick Buchanan: End of the Line for the Welfare State?

 

By Patrick J. Buchanan

The Congressional Budget Office did not exactly say Obamacare would cost the nation 2.5 million jobs.

But what it did say is vindication of what conservatives have preached since Barry Goldwater stood in the pulpit 50 years ago:

The more liberal the welfare state, the greater the disincentive to work and the more ruinous the impact upon a nation’s work ethic.

The CBO has just given us a statistical measure of that truth.