Karl --

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• April 8, 1998, on Welfare Reform:

  I'll commend you, Phil, for offering an alternative to the present system. However, i suspect that your alternative would be subject to the same sort of abuses mentioned. I still see a poverty industry made necessary to determine/prove that the hotels/restaurants REALLY did deliver their shelter/food. Additionally, as was pointed out, its very likely that we'd see businesses that provide the government freebie, and thus attract that clientele, then have trouble attracting paying customers, and this would negate the integration of the poor into society advantage. Finally, I think that the natural history of government handouts is such that they create an enormous increase in demand for themselves, with the only check on supply being, ultimately, how much we can be taxed. yes, it might start out being cheaper than the present system, but as has happened with social security, medicare, welfare, yadda-yadda-yadda, the demand grows quickly till either--taxes/deficits get increased to...