{"id":8690,"date":"2014-08-06T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8690"},"modified":"2014-08-06T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T18:51:09","slug":"making-the-welfare-state-less-intrusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/08\/making-the-welfare-state-less-intrusive.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Making the Welfare State Less Intrusive&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>some thoughts from Jesse Walker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026The sorts of welfare-reform tinkering that interest me most are the ones that cashify and combine programs. By <em>cashify<\/em>, I mean taking a subsidy with strings attached\u2014food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, anything like that\u2014and instead just sending money to the people who qualify for it, letting them choose how to spend it. That way taxpayers can reduce the bureaucratic overhead (and sometimes\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/18\/big-banks-food-stamps-and-the-trouble-wi\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">corporate welfare<\/a>) involved in administering the program; and that way the clients, who have a better idea than any official of what their needs are, will have more autonomy in how they use the cash. Most of them\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/free-money-might-be-the-best-way-to-end-poverty\/2013\/12\/29\/679c8344-5ec8-11e3-95c2-13623eb2b0e1_story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">won\u2019t waste it<\/a>. Some will, but if the choice is between a society where welfare money gets spent on beer and a society where\u00a0welfare money gets spent creating elaborate mechanisms to make sure people don\u2019t buy beer, I\u2019m gonna prefer the former.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/05\/making-the-welfare-state-less-intrusive\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some thoughts from Jesse Walker: \u2026The sorts of welfare-reform tinkering that interest me most are the ones that cashify and combine programs. By cashify, I mean taking a subsidy with strings attached\u2014food stamps, Section 8 housing vouchers, anything like that\u2014and instead just sending money to the people who qualify for it, letting them choose how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[354,46,77],"class_list":["post-8690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jesse-walker","tag-our-enemy-the-state","tag-prepare-for-life-in-capitalist-america-play-class-struggle-the-game"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Making the Welfare State Less Intrusive&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"some thoughts from Jesse Walker: ...The sorts of welfare-reform tinkering that interest me most are the ones that cashify and combine programs. 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