Perhaps the solution lies in, not making life easier for more people, but in making it hard enough that they have some motivation to WORK THINGS OUT FOR THEMSELVES. They have a choice of trying to improve their lives by making the effort to be self-reliant, or they have the choice of trying to improve their lives by asking the dwindling number of us who pay taxes to pay MORE.
Your posts would indicate that you have eliminated the whole first option from the available remedies. And that makes it a liberal argument, not at all related to “economics 101”.
They should. However, we live in a society in which housing gets more expensive.
And if we’re not going to raise wages to make work more attractive, we still face the problem of cost-shifting.
Its not going to go away because taxpayers sooner or later foot the bill.
Two hundred years ago, even one hundred years ago, people worked to provide for themselves or they starved. Family or community charity might provide a rudimentary subsistence existence for the aged, physically or mentally disabled, as well as widows and orphans but anyone capable of doing menial labor chose between working or starving. The weak and lazy often did not survive.
Today progressives are steadily increasing the burden on the productive class by increasing the number of people supported by the community as well as the standard of “subsistence” to which the unproductive are entitled. At some point the burden will become too great and the economic system will collapse.
Leftists throughout history have consistently demonstrated a willingness to kill off millions of people in order to achieve the goals of the state. In an economic collapse scenario, where resources are insufficient to support the population, a leftist dictatorship will not shy from eliminating unproductive citizens rather than take measures to return to free market prosperity. The elderly will be the first to go followed by the sick, the disabled, and ultimately the lazy. The children of today’s welfare parasites are likely to experience a rude awakening during their lifetime. Today’s benefactors, the liberal elites, may one day be their worst nightmare.