“It is difficult to understand precisely what the state hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare and crime.” StatesProblemDifficultAchieveCrimeCreationCostBoundariesWelfareUnemploymentPromoting Author:William J. Brennan
“Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs” PeopleShouldTryingGovernmentPayResponsibilityBearsCostWesternOilProducersWelfare Author:Mohammad Khatami
“We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?” NeedsLongCareAmericaMillionsHonestCostCriminalsQuittingHealth CareWelfareImmigrantsIllegalExpensesIllegal ImmigrantsResidency Author:Newt Gingrich
“Whenever government assumed responsibility for the security, welfare, and prosperity of citizens, the costs of government rise beyond the point where it is politically expedient to cover them by direct tax levies.” GovernmentResponsibilitySecurityCitizensCostTaxesDirectProsperityWelfare Author:Leonard Read
“The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.” LongTermCostPopulationWelfareLong Term Author:Mark Steyn
“For every dollar of revenue generated by gambling, taxpayers must pay at least $3 in increased criminal justice costs, social welfare expenses, high regulatory costs, and increased infrastructure expenditures” SocialJusticePayCostDollarsCriminalsWelfareGamblingExpensesRevenueInfrastructureTaxpayersCriminal JusticeExpendituresSocial Welfare Author:John Warren Kindt
“While advocates of legalized gambling say it brings in revenues needed for education and other uses, it actually has led to higher taxes, loss of jobs, economic disruption of non-gambling businesses, increased crime and higher social-welfare costs” UseJobsSocialLossEconomicCrimeNeededHigherCostTaxesWelfareGamblingRevenueDisruptionSocial WelfareJob Loss Author:John Warren Kindt
“The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves.” CareFormAnimalEnvironmentCostAccountsWorkersIllnessOilNineHealth CareConsumersWelfareMealsSoilEtcPollutionCentsNinetyTaxpayersPursesObesityPublic HealthFast FoodHamburgersSubsidiesNinety NineHealth Care SystemSlaughterhouses Author:Michael Pollan