Last week I was taken to task by a reader for classifying WIC (government aid to Women, Infants, and Children) as welfare. He said this was an incorrect categorization of WIC. His rationale centered around the ubiquity of the program, i.e., he claimed that almost any single mother could qualify for it.
I’m not sure whether he is right in making such an estimate. However, it wouldn’t matter if everyone in America qualified for it. That’s not the point. The point is that WIC is an unearned government handout, which qualifies it as welfare. It’s not like Social Security or Medicare, programs that people pay into when they are younger and draw benefits from when they are older.
WIC, on the other hand, frequently provides benefits to those who pay little or no taxes, while those who pay the most taxes will likely never see a dime from it. It’s just another government redistribution-of-wealth scheme, aka welfare. You can call it whatever you would like. Welfare by any other name is still welfare.
Source: CommenTerry
