Welfare Economics Quotes

“The United States, with the greatest ability and the weakest desire to finance a welfare state, winds up in the middle of the pack in terms of the absolute value of the resources devoted to it. By 2003...America's per capita Public Expenditures were greater than those in Japan, Spain, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, while lower than those in Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark and Sweden.”
― William Voegeli, Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

“Limited period basic income (provided to those in need) can strengthen the preexisting welfare system in its efforts to empower the people and invoke equality, whereas universal basic income will only weaken the fabric of society and create deeper disparities.”
― Abhijit Naskar, No Foreigner Only Family

“Nobody has a right to comfort, unless everybody has access to the essentials of life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“This body is a scrounger if it needs the state, a faker if it holds down a job.”
― Frances Ryan

“A government's first duty to its citizens, is to provide a fully functional welfare state. Welfare state ought to be the first refuge, not the last resort. A thriving welfare state produces ambitious citizens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Humanitarian Dictator