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We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.
We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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.