Eight Reasons Why Big Government Hurts Economic Growth
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We got to cut spending and we must first start with food stamp program and we need some Senators that are willing to make the tough cuts.
Food Stamp Republicans
Posted by Chris Edwards
Newt Gingrich had fun calling President Obama the “food stamp president,” but many Republicans are just as responsible for the exploding costs of this welfare state program.
The chart shows that federal outlays for food stamps (officially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) roughly doubled under President Bush and then doubled again under President Obama.
Despite the quadrupling of food stamp spending, 13 Republicans in the Senate yesterday—including supposed conservatives Bob Corker and Rob Portman—joined Democrats to defeat reforms to the program sponsored by Senator Rand Paul.
(More on food stamps here, here, and here).
Milton Friedman – The Negative Income Tax
Published on May 11, 2012 by LibertyPen
In this 1968 interview, Milton Friedman explained the negative income tax, a proposal that at minimum would save taxpayers the 72 percent of our current welfare budget spent on administration. http://www.LibertyPen.com
Source: Firing Line with William F Buckley Jr.
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