Henry Hazlitt Quotes About Welfare

• The tendency of welfare spending in the United States has been to increase at an exponential rate.

  Henry Hazlitt

  United States, Welfare, Increase

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). "La sabiduría de Henry Hazlitt", Fundación para la Educación Económica.

• Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Relief, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt, Hans F. Sennholz (1993). "La sabiduría de Henry Hazlitt", Fundación para la Educación Económica.

• A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Welfare Programs, Issues, Paper

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.184, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• Cuando se propone cualquier plan de bienestar, sus patrocinadores políticos siempre insisten en lo que un gobierno generoso y compasivo debería pagar a Pablo; se olvidan de mencionar que este dinero adicional debe arrebatarse a Pedro.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Gobierno, Política, Retribución

• The State, of course, is absolutely indispensable to the preservation of law and order, and the promotion of peace and social cooperation. What is unnecessary and evil, what abridges the liberty and threatens the true welfare of the individual, is the State that has usurped excessive powers and grown beyond its legitimate function - the super-State, the socialist State, the redistributive State, in brief, the ironically misnamed 'Welfare State.'

  Henry Hazlitt

  Order, Law, Evil

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.195, Ludwig von Mises Institute

• The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We should all be concerned about the plight of the poor and unfortunate. But the hard two-part question that any plan for relieving poverty must answer is: How can we mitigate the penalties of failure and misfortune without undermining the incentives to effort and success.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government Welfare, Two, Effort

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.211, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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