Welfare and social-assistance programs, originally intended to provide a 'safety net' for the poor, have grown into the primary source of income for a large and growing portion of our population.
'No major institution in the US has so poor a record of performance over so long a period as the Federal Reserve, yet so high a public reputation,' said Nobel prize winning economist Milton Friedman.
The Christian obligation of charity is personal. Assenting to government largesse that’s based on tax money collected through legal compulsion may suit your ideological convictions, but it isn’t charity.
Business groups warned that collecting financial information on 'nearly every American without proper explanation of how the IRS will store, protect, and use this enormous trove of personal financial information' would 'create tremendous liability.'
The target year is tied to the United Nations’ global ‘Sustainable Development Goals,’ which promote a radical overhaul of democratic national governance and free market economic systems by the year 2030.