https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/14/opinion/benefits-work-and-poverty.html
Here's an interesting article that shows that there seems to be a correlation between higher levels of welfare spending and decrements in poverty, my only concern here with it would be that it's quite a small sample size and relies on cross country comparison that have always been slightly dicey. It also lines up with the historical data which show that it did result in a decrease.
I don't think a lot of these people though are really aiming for the reduction in poverty, the smarter libertarian ones seem to be getting for a reduction in taxes as they view it as a violation of human rights that people are forced against their will by the government to fund these programs. However I view that as the cost for reducing poverty and the concept doesn't bother me at all.
Any thoughts FiC?
Here's an interesting article that shows that there seems to be a correlation between higher levels of welfare spending and decrements in poverty, my only concern here with it would be that it's quite a small sample size and relies on cross country comparison that have always been slightly dicey. It also lines up with the historical data which show that it did result in a decrease.
I don't think a lot of these people though are really aiming for the reduction in poverty, the smarter libertarian ones seem to be getting for a reduction in taxes as they view it as a violation of human rights that people are forced against their will by the government to fund these programs. However I view that as the cost for reducing poverty and the concept doesn't bother me at all.
Any thoughts FiC?