Thread:Emmette Hernandez Coleman/@comment-681745-20140322080234/@comment-681745-20140323140526

So basically the difference between our positions is over how far the welfare state should go. Frequently that's a choice of evils and there's no perfect solution.

Example
In the UK a cap has been introduced on the benefits that families with many children can receive. This has encouraged parents of many children to find work but has also caused severe hardship with the children innocent victims. See Benefits cap mum fears family may end up on street after £82 cut from weekly payments. Of course if parents in the position of the mother in the article end up on the street and the children end up in care this will cost the state far more.

Our positions
Where there's uncertainty
 * 1) Social Democrat type Liberals err on the side of compassion.
 * 2) Conservatives err on the side of lowering taxes, lowering welfare spending, increasing incentives.
 * 3) Libertarians err on the side of what they think is freedom. Usually that means freedom for rich employers to offer lousy jobs. Too often that means freedom for a mother in the position of the mother in the article to accept a lousy job that tires her out for low hourly pay or see her children taken into care.