You’ll recall that John Kasich (governor of Ohio 2011-2019) was one of the Republican governors who disappointingly chose to embrace the Obamacare expansion of Medicaid, putting thousands more in government dependency; when Ohio rejected his preferred policy, Kasich circumvented the legislature and imposed his will anyway.
Two candidates are running for the Republican nomination to replace Kasich (who is term-limited):
Mary Taylor
‘the issue of welfare is not what it costs those who provide it, but what it costs those who receive it.’
January 23, 2015
Great line. From George Will’s column this week:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a lifelong New Deal liberal and accomplished social scientist, warned that “the issue of welfare is not what it costs those who provide it, but what it costs those who receive it.”
(The apt headline and subtitle NRO gives it on the main page are “The Perils of Dependency: It’s changing our national character.”)
See also Mark Steyn and even FDR on the welfare state.
Via Wintery Knight, Professor Mark J. Perry gives us another graph of how skewed our tax system is against the rich (contrary to a certain liberal narrative):
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