After the Welfare State: Real Welfare in a Free Society

Abstract

During the whole of the second half of the twentieth century the state has seized and successfully held monopoly control of all those essential services which socialists have deceitfully schooled us to define as welfare. By the end of the century, this bizarre system will have been replaced by more natural and more efficient arrangements more appropriate to a free society. We shall look back on the Welfare State with the same contemptuous amazement as that with which we now view slavery as a means of organizing effective, motivated work, central planning as an instrument for operating an efficient, dynamic economy, or feudalism as a source of reliable, legitimate political rule.