We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

We tried to provide more for the poor and produced more poor instead. We tried to remove the barriers to escape poverty, and inadvertently built a trap.

The welfare state is an enemy of private property. The excessive taxation used to support the welfare state is extremely dangerous.

The reason welfare is bad is not because it costs too much, nor because it "undermines the work ethic," but because it is intrinsically at odds with the way human beings come to live satisfying lives.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

The most troubling aspect of social policy towards the poor in late 20th century America is or how much it costs, but what it has bought.

It was raining cats and dogs, and I fell in a poodle.