Ideas@The Centre 41 2012
Vol. 10 No. 41 (October, 2012) Freedom Quote of the Week'The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly'.
— Thomas Sowell
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Self-sustaining leviathan
| 19 Oct 2012
The welfare state has gone far beyond a ‘safety net’ concept.
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Too scared
| 19 Oct 2012
Big state bureaucracies find it difficult coping with individual initiative or making room for common sense.
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The fall in Australian poverty
| 19 Oct 2012
Getting people into the workforce rather than handing more money to welfare recipients would be a better means of addressing the causes of poverty.
