Poverty, Welfare Archives — News From London, Ontario, And Beyond

Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”

September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business. Continue reading →

The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart

June 4, 2019 – Jon Nylander …… The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden. Continue reading →

Student Debt Cancellation: Charity or Force?

May 30, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… There is a fundamental difference between voluntary charity and mandatory “charity.” Continue reading →

Liberty Means Repealing, not Reforming, Social Security

April 16, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Liberty necessary entails the absence of infringements on liberty. Therefore, the attainment of a free society necessarily entails a lifting, dismantling, or repeal of infringements on liberty. Continue reading →

Ending Poverty

April 3, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… The way to end poverty is to prohibit government from waging war on poverty. Continue reading →

Guaranteed Income Versus Prohibited Income

March 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Welfare programs and wealth taxes: the government’s pretense of transferring a little bit of wealth from the rich to the poor is a smokescreen for the massive amount of wealth surreptitiously flowing in the opposite direction. Continue reading →

Canada’s Federal Government Knows Welfare Programs are Counterproductive, but the Handouts Continue

March 4, 2019 – Lee Friday …… To borrow a sentiment from Ludwig von Mises, we need to rid ourselves of the idea “that the State or the Government is the embodiment of all that is good and beneficial.” Continue reading →

School Bans Designer Coats in Order to “Poverty Proof” Campus

January 18, 2019 – Brittany Hunter …… The new policy is sheltering children from the realities of the world we live in and teaching them to resent the wealth of others. Students are being taught that every time someone else has something they do not, a central authority figure will swoop in and level the playing field. Continue reading →

What the New Socialists in Congress Need to Know About Poverty

January 12, 2019 – Xavier Underwood …… Success must be measured not by the amount of money we throw at poverty solutions, but by the number of people who are exiting poverty. Continue reading →

Sweatshops Today, Decent Work Tomorrow

January 11, 2019 – Nikhil Sridhar …… The ticket to the UN’s ideal of decent work is not regulation and legislation, but economic liberalization. Continue reading →