Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Laurence M Vance
“Welfare is the common term for government relief and assistance programs for low-income Americans, although the word itself has largely been displaced from government documents. The two terms generally in vogue now are income security and entitlement programs. These are programs that provide benefits to any American citizen who qualifies. The programs are open-ended. Instead of spending levels being set every year by congressional appropriation bills, the federal government must spend as much money as necessary to provide benefits to everyone who qualifies for them. … These programs are just as much welfare programs as any of the means-tested welfare programs and should be called as such, for welfare by any other name is still welfare.” (08/26/25)
https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/welfare-by-any-other-name-is-still-welfare/