Volume 6 of "The Collected Works of Arthur Seldon" examines the
failure of state-supported welfare programs to benefit the people
most in need of help. The eight articles and one book in this
volume encompass almost forty years of criticism of the welfare
state. Seldon argues that the welfare state cannot, in the long
run, solve the problem of poverty. It is driven by misguided
egalitarian views which make it universalist, providing benefits
for the middle classes as well as the poor. Because it finances
welfare through taxation, it damages incentives to work. Moreover
it diminishes motivations to save and to provide for ones family as
the state appears to take over such responsibilities. Once free
welfare services are begun they are very difficult to stop. But,
says Seldon, permanent state welfare is unnecessary: as peoples
incomes rise, most are capable of providing for themselves and
their families. In the end, people will revolt against inferior
state services and the state will have to retreat.
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