Michael Tanner Professions : Author Born : 1956 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Michael Tanner The tragedy of government welfare programs is not just wasted taxpayer money but wasted lives. The effects of welfare in encouraging the break-up of low-income families have been extensively documented. The primary way that those with low incomes can advance in the market economy is to get married, stay married, and work—but welfare programs have created incentives to do the opposite. Michael Tanner welfare-programs government opposites The future of research is interdisciplina ry, and will quickly take us into areas that today we cannot even foresee. This building gives us the space and the flexibility to go where the imagination of our faculty takes us. Michael Tanner space imagination giving Forget the state concerns -- we think this is bad for churches. Most churches are small and not ready to handle 500 pages of government red tape. Michael Tanner government church thinking I want people to understand that there is a trade-off involved, you can have widespread care that provides benefits that are well beyond the current insurance system, but that doesn’t have co-payments or deductibles. Or you can have low cost. But you can’t have both. Michael Tanner politics The government hasn’t done a very good job with the health care system it already runs, medicare is nearly $50 trillion in debt, there [are] still all sorts of problems with the VA system, Medicaid provides coverage that is barely better than being uninsured. So the government’s track record is not very successful. Michael Tanner politics I think the letdown after ObamaCare has led a lot of Democrats to say, okay, we need to go further. Michael Tanner politics We don't know what works best, but we know what we're doing isn't working. Experimentation seems like a good idea. Michael Tanner health-news It’s a group of politicians that believe that the answers to everything lies in ever bigger government and ever more government spending, we understand the basics about how to get out of poverty. Number one, for example, has to do with a good education …. We’re spending a huge amount of money on schools, not educating students, and you end up with a lot of kids in poverty. Michael Tanner politics Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
