Is it wrong for taxpayers to fund welfare of any kind.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Pertinent question: Is it wrong for the federal government to create welfare entitlements that are antithetical to the common good?

Which programs would you be referring to?

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Pertinent question: Is it wrong for the federal government to create welfare entitlements that are antithetical to the common good?

Which programs would you be referring to?

We've been deficit spending for over 30 years to prop up the entitlement state, and keep the middle class financially solvent. You still don't know where the problems are?

I would like to know which specific programs you believe are "antithetical to the common good".

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

There is literally not enough work that is of any value to any person to keep every low-skilled worker occupied. The term "zero marginal product worker" has been popping up for good reason. What you're advocating would both cost more than "welfare" and add to the sum total of human misery. But you probably already knew that.

That's a recycled corporate argument, which supposes an economic utopia without welfare. In the real world, a welfare recipient who sweeps streets is often more economically useful to the public than someone who sits on their duff. The exception is welfare mothers with children.

Well, if you want someone sweeping the street, hire him to do that, instead of keeping him on welfare.

but we can't have the free market running things, that's unconservative and unamerican (see bans on tesla sales and the vw/uaw fiasco)