More than
100 million Americans now receive means-tested assistance from
the federal government, according to data released this week by the
Census. Scores of millions more receive old-age entitlements,
targeted tax exemptions, and straight-up corporatist handouts. With
a recovery still limping along, is this any way to run an
economy?
That’s the topic of tonight’s episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three and five hours later), titled “The United States
of Welfare.”
The show kicks off with Heritage Foundation Chief Economist
Stephen
Moore providing an overview of the history behind, successes
of, and challenges to the Clinton/Gingrich 1990s welfare reform.
The Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley, author of
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make it Harder for Blacks
to Succeed, will then come on to talk about the ballyhooed
“culture of dependency.” Beloved Reason Senior Editor
Peter
Suderman arrives to talk about Medicaid and Obamacare,
followed by Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael Tanner, who
will break down the recent
unsustainable spike in disability claims.
Anti-corporatist crusader Tim Carney of the Washington
Examiner will declaim corporate welfare of the type dished
out by the Export-Import
Bank; Tom
Palmer of Cato and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation will
discuss the differences between (and interrelationship of) private
and public charity, and the co-hosts will present their own ideas
for welfare reform going forward. It’s a richly informative program
that will give you knowledge and intellectual ammunition no matter
where you come out on the question of transfers to the poor and
non-poor alike.
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