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<li>If you want to help | <li>If you want to help the poor, do you donate your hard-earned money to a food stamps office? Why not? If welfare programs are more efficient than charities, they deserve every dollar you spend towards helping the poor. Furthermore, charities that haven't been <i>crowded out</i> by welfare programs should be nationalized to prevent further wastages.</li> | ||
<li>Would you prefer to spend long hours at a job you may dislike or even hate, or to instead send out a few discouraging job applications, and spend the rest of the day enjoying your hobbies? Welfare makes living on a low income more attractive than it otherwise would be, either by increasing rewards or reducing penalties.</li> | <li>Would you prefer to spend long hours at a job you may dislike or even hate, or to instead send out a few discouraging job applications, and spend the rest of the day enjoying your hobbies? Welfare makes living on a low income more attractive than it otherwise would be, either by increasing rewards or reducing penalties.</li> | ||
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Arguments Against Welfare
- If you want to help the poor, do you donate your hard-earned money to a food stamps office? Why not? If welfare programs are more efficient than charities, they deserve every dollar you spend towards helping the poor. Furthermore, charities that haven't been crowded out by welfare programs should be nationalized to prevent further wastages.
- Would you prefer to spend long hours at a job you may dislike or even hate, or to instead send out a few discouraging job applications, and spend the rest of the day enjoying your hobbies? Welfare makes living on a low income more attractive than it otherwise would be, either by increasing rewards or reducing penalties.
- The degree to which self-interest hinders charitable giving is the degree to which self-interest induces needless taking. If people are reluctant to give away their money for free, why wouldn't they be reluctant to give up a source of free money?