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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think the letdown after ObamaCare has led a lot of Democrats to... by Michael Tanner

I think the letdown after ObamaCare has led a lot of Democrats to say, okay, we need to go further.

We don't know what works best, but we know what we're doing isn't working. Experimentation seems like a good idea.