Agreed, and if there's one thing I agree with conservatives on it's the need to dis-incentivize welfare tied to childbirth. I'd suggest a welfare amount per household that is limited to up to two adult guardians and one child, and that's it. You bring other children into this world, you pay for them and if you can't, then protective services should come in and decide whether the kid's basic needs are being met and TPR if they aren't. Controversial and harsh but sticking to it.
The Assistance To Single Women With Children part of the Social Security Act provided grants to states as Aid To Dependent Children.
Eventually the name of the program was changed to Aid to Families with Dependent Children. This was welfare folks. Assistance for single moms with children and no daddy at home. In 1935. Blacks were excluded. Aid to Dependent Children functioned mainly to provide federal grants to help the states with mothers’ aid laws that began in 1910. The ADC plan was written by two ladies who had been former directors of what was at the time called the U.S. Children’s Bureau.
The Children’s Bureau’s goal was to provide aid to all children whose mothers had no support from a husband no matter how they got into that position. From the Children’s Bureau in 1910 until 1965, no one talked about how the welfare state was wrong and created the disintegration of the white family.
Linda Gordon and Felice Batlan, The Legal History of the Aid to Dependent Children Program,
Aid To Dependent Children: The Legal History
Tying welfare to black childbirth is a racist meme started by Ronald Reagan.
“Corporate welfare often subsidizes failing and mismanaged businesses and induces firms to spend more time on lobbying rather than on making better products. Instead of correcting market failures, federal subsidies misallocate resources and introduce government failures into the marketplace.”
The problem with making welfare about nonwhites and poor white people is that wealthy whites get most of the government handouts and always have. In 2006, approximately fifty-nine billion was spent on welfare for poor and moderate-income Americans. About ninety-two billion was spent on corporate subsidies. In 2012, ninety eight billion was spent on corporate subsidies. These handouts to corporations way exceed that given to households with children. People aren't getting wealthy having children and instead of investing in corporate subsidies our best investment is in our children.
Tad DeHaven, Corporate Welfare in the Federal Budget, Policy Analysis, No. 703, July 25, 2012,
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/PA703.pdf
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs,
https://thinkbynumbers.org/uncategorized/corporate-vs-socialwelfare/, original source, Time Magazine, Vol. 152 No. 19
Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Corporate Welfare: Corporate Welfare, Time Magazine, Vol. 152 No. 19, Nov. 09, 1998,
http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,989508, 00.html
Stephen Slivinski, The Corporate Welfare State:How the Federal Government Subsidizes U.S. Businesses, Policy Analysis, No. 592, May 14, 2007,
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa592.pdf
Rob Borrow, Welfare Inequality: The Rise of Corporate Welfare, October 9, 2020,
https://soapboxie.com/government/welfareinequality
Robert Reich, How Corporate Welfare Hurts You, The American Prospect, July 23, 2019,
https://prospect.org/economy/corporatewelfare-hurts/
Scott Lincicome, Calculating the Real Cost of Corporate Welfare, The Federalist, September 30, 2013,
https://thefederalist.com/2013/09/30/calculating-the-real-cost-ofcorporate-welfare
