Welfare-State Book

• Do you struggle just to pay your bills?
• Is it almost impossible to save money to buy a house you can’t afford anymore?
• Are your children getting a miserable education at your local government-run public school?
• Do your taxes keep going up while your standard of living goes down?
• Is health insurance so expensive that you can’t afford it anymore and the thought of getting sick terrifies you?

The Welfare-Entitlement State and the

philosophy behind it, is causing your problems.

Over the past sixty years, America has turned into a welfare or “entitlement” state. Government now takes up to 50 percent of our income in taxes to pay for entitlement programs and regulations. Middle-class taxpayers have become beasts of burden; we pay for handouts, subsidies and entitlements to an endless list of special-interest groups who demand the money we earn.

These special interest groups include not only the classic “welfare” recipients, but far worse, corporations and millions of average middle-class Americans. We have corporate tax breaks, big farmer subsidies, college tuition grants, Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps, rent subsidies, “free” public schools, government-employee pensions, and free healthy care for millions of illegal aliens. Hundreds of special-interest groups, large and small, now feed at the public trough.

All these entitlement programs have one thing in common; someone has to pay for them! That someone is you, the hardworking, middle-class taxpayer. The Welfare-Entitlement State requires legal theft on a massive scale because government confiscates our money through taxes to pay for these handouts, subsidies and entitlements.

How do liberals, Democrats, and too many Republicans justify this legalized theft? They tell you it is your moral duty to “help” others, whether you like it or not. That means you have no right to your paycheck or your profits while others are in “need”. If you refuse this alleged moral duty, they call you cruel and mean-spirited.

Most of us are not dumb enough to voluntarily hand over 50 percent of our income to bureaucrats. So liberals and Republicans alike use goverment to foce this moral “duty” down our throats. Our elected representatives, our agents, put their hands into our pockets at the point of a legislative gun, and turn compassion into compulsion.

The author Joel Turtel asks, “by what right?” Why do we let our elected officials turn us into beasts of burden? Should government force us to “help” strangers at the expense of ourselves and our family? Does government have the arbitrary right to take 50 percent of everything we earn? What is the purpose of government? Is it supposed to protect our rights, property, and hard-earned paycheck, or is government our lord and master?

Turtel explores these vital issues. He also attacks the one vicious idea that’s used to justify the Welfare-Entitlement State…that government has the right to force us to be our brothers keeper, whether we like it or not. He shows how this ideas spawned the Welfare-Entitlement State that now devours us with taxes, regulations, huge deficits and skyrocketing health care costs. Lastly, the author shows us a way out.

He proposes a startling new Amendment to the Constitution that would end the Welfare-Entitlement State, once and for all. This amendment would permanently restrict government power and forbid local and state governments and Congress from stealing out hard-earned money and violating our liberty. The Amendment would end most regulations, abolish the income tax, and phase out all entitlement programs. It would give us a bright new future.

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Excerpts from The Welfare State: No Mercy For the Middle Class

The cruelty of liberals —  “No one has the right to take one penny you’ve earned without your approval. Yet welfare-state liberals presume the right to steal up to 50% of your money in taxes.. . It’s liberals who are cruel and vicious. They have no mercy for the middle class, no mercy for those who work and struggle to pay for liberals’ alleged compassion. It’s so easy to be noble with other peoples’ money.”

The arrogance of liberals – “Liberals don’t ask you to pay for entitlement programs. Instead, they point a tax gun at you and say, ‘your money or your life.’”

Safety net —  “If we dismantled the Welfare State, we could still have a safety net. A free economy can give us unemployment insurance, low-cost health insurance, and a nest egg for our retirement. It would also create millions of new jobs and opportunity for everyone.”

Entitlements —  “Welfare, food stamps, farm subsidies, corporate subsidies, and thousands of other entitlements aren’t rights. They’re handouts that liberals give to some people by robbing others. So an economic ‘right’ is not a right at all. Instead, it’s simply a license to steal.”

Compassion —  “Liberals turn our natural compassion into a moral and political duty—they turn compassion into compulsion.”

Progressive income tax – “The progressive income tax is morally obscene because it’s a tax on virtue. The more you earn, the more you pay. The harder you work, the more government confiscates from you. Your ability determines your punishment.”

Environmental regulations – “From the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm, hundreds of thousands of brave Americans have died fighting to defend our freedom. Yet today, with little protest, we throw our liberty into the gutter for the sake of rats, owls, and wetlands swamps.”

Environmentalists’ doomsday predictions – “Environmentalists’ doomsday predictions would be comical, if it wasn’t for the fact that these scare stories have frightened local, state, and federal legislators into creating a massive, poisonous layer of regulations. Environmental regulations violate our property rights, restrict our personal liberties, threaten our standard of living, and throw thousands of Americans out of work.”

Middle-class - “My book is a moral defense of the middle-class. It defends those who work hard, take responsibility for their lives, and ask nothing from government but to leave them alone to pursue their dreams.”

Health-care crisis – “We have a crisis because our health care system is part of the Welfare State. Medicare and Medicaid are out-of-control entitlement programs, and government regulations strangle the health care industry . . . . A festering mountain of regulations adds hundres of billions of dollars to the cost of doing business for doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and insurance companies. The unconscionable cost of these regulations is then passed on to us, the hapless consumer of government-controlled medical care.”

Regulations – “Today, a constant stream of new regulations, imposed on a widening circle of industries, robs consumers, causes chronic long-term inflation, strangles our economy, and throws millions of Americans out of work.”

Consumer protection laws – “Consumer protection regulations reveal liberals’ ignorance of the moral values and practical skills needed to succeed in business: honesty, integrity, perseverance, intelligence, long-range vision, and the willingness to take risks. A free economy brings out the best in people and makes them live up to their highest potential. Welfare-state liberals presume they have the right to control this moral, dynamic economic system with snooping bureaucrats and regulations backed by force, threats, and massive fines.”

Food and Drug Administration – “The real problem is that the FDA makes it risky to develop these [new] drugs. The real problem, therefore, is that the FDA exists in the first place. If we abolished the FDA, drug companies wouldn’t have to spend years and tens of millions of dollars to get a drug approved. They would develop orphan drugs without needing a special monopoly. Fierce free-market competition would then drive [drug] prices down.”

Business profits protect consumers – “It’s true that businesses only care about profits, but that’s exactly why they have to care about people. A company makes profits by selling goods or services we want. If we don’t like a product, we won’t buy it. If we think the product is unsafe, unhealthy, or doesn’t work, we won’t buy it . . . . It’s therefore in a company’s self-interest to offer a safe, high-quality product. The company’s profits and survival depend on consumers choosing its products over those of its competitors.”

Bureaucrats – “A bureaucrat has no personal self-interest in protecting us. He’ll keep his civil-service job and salary whether he protects the consumer or not. Bureaucrats don’t care about us because our spending decisions don’t affect them in the least.”

The Guilt Trip – Liberals know we have natural humanitarian feelings, and they play on this. They tell us we’re mean or selfish if we don’t vote for their programs. Liberals replace our parents in our subconscious minds, feeding on our guilt and pushing us to vote for ever more . . . .entitlement programs. We can end this manipulation only when we realize that there’s nothing wring with being selfish.”