Entitlements
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Save Social Security With ... Tax Hikes?
A few Republicans are openly talking about raising taxes to address the looming insolvency of the nation’s largest federal program.
Welfare Reform at 30
In 1996, congressional Republicans and Democrat Bill Clinton collaborated to make much-needed changes to federal welfare programs.
Even More Taxes Won’t Save Social Security
The nearly insolvent federal program has become far too dependent on current workers, and raising taxes on the rich won’t fix the problem.
With SNAP Limits, Prices Drop
Deflationary pressure has come from an unusual source: As states limit the items food stamps can buy, prices for some of those items fall.
Incentivized Entitlement Fraud
Minnesota’s massive and growing welfare fraud scandal demonstrates the reality that the entitlement state has gotten too big and unaccountable.
The High Price of Help
Subsidies always inflate the price of what they’re meant to make affordable.
Oh SNAP — More Judicial Diktats
Senate Democrats are keeping the government closed, and Donald Trump is not a king. Nevertheless, two district judges claim the authority to open the spigot for food stamps.
Illegal Immigrants Are on Medicaid — Taxpayers Deserve the Truth
By siding with loopholes and manipulation over taxpayers, Democrats have made clear they would rather protect benefits for noncitizens than protect the program for Americans.
What’s the ObamaCare Fight All About, Anyway?
Democrats created ObamaCare and expanded subsidies without Republican help. Now they’re blaming the GOP for not saving them from the disaster they created.
The Medicaid ‘Safety Couch’
Republicans’ modest attempt to rein in the wasteful redistribution of income to able-bodied and illegal-alien Medicaid recipients has leftists bemoaning the cruel unfairness of it all.
How Much Money Did You Lose in Social Security?
A look at what could have been had George W. Bush succeeded in reforming our nation’s largest entitlement. Instead, Democrats cost us all tons of money.
The Medicaid Argument Rages On
As much as Democrats and the Leftmedia demagogue the issue of entitlements — and even Republicans drag their feet on reform — the Medicaid boondoggle balloon needs to be popped.
A Medicaid Makeover Is a Must
The program is rife with the waste, fraud, and abuse everyone claims to hate.
Biden’s Lies and Social Insecurity
The former president’s first public speech since leaving office was full of dishonesty and bereft of dignity.
How a Black Movement About Freedom Became a Movement About Welfare
After the crowning achievement of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the movement was captured by the left.
Trump, Musk, and Social Security
Continuing to ignore our Social Security mess may be politically astute, but it’s economic malpractice.
Elon Musk Should Take on Social Security
We must free young Americans, our future, from failed German socialism, and return them to American capitalism.
Robbing Social Security
One of Joe Biden’s parting acts comes at a huge expense to the nation’s biggest entitlement system.
Make a Resolution to Fix Social Security
By doing nothing — or worse, adding to the program’s burdens — Congress is, in fact, acquiescing to cuts, and drastic ones.
The Cost of Free Money
We already have a debt crisis like nobody’s seen before. Let’s not make it worse with a UBI.