By Mike Gray

Dennis Prager says, “Oh, yeah!” and offers ten reasons why:

1. The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another.

2. The welfare state, though often well intended, is nevertheless a Ponzi scheme.

3. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic.

4. The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work.

5. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something for nothing.

6. The bigger the government, the more the corruption.

7. The welfare state corrupts family life.

8. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults.

9. . . . because almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, European countries rely on America to fight the world’s evils . . . .

10. The leftist weltanschauung sees society’s and the world’s great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and evil.

Prager elaborates on each of these points in his Townhall article “Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society’s Moral Character.”

You can buy Henry Hazlitt’s still-relevant economic critique, Man vs. The Welfare State, here.