Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Welfare System

Welfare is the provision of a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens and is sometimes referred to as public aid. In most countries, welfare is largely provided by the government and to a lesser extent, charities, informal social groups, religious groups and inter-governmental organisations. It takes a variety of forms such as monetary payment, subsidies and vouchers or housing assistance. It is time to recognise that welfare cannot be reformed; it should be ended. The welfare system is unfair to everyone: to taxpayers who must pick up the bill for failed programs; to society, whose mediating institutions of community, church and family are increasingly pushed aside; and most of all to the poor themselves, who are trapped in a system that destroys opportunity for themselves and hope for their children.
Government welfare should be abolished because it is abused putting the working class at …show more content…
Some people are richer than others and have a greater advantage and better chance at success, while others had parents on welfare and are not college students trying to make it and need additional resources because no one will employ them. Finally, you have older individuals on welfare that have retired and social security isn’t enough to make up the difference of their working wages so now they need help in order to barely make it.
As one can see, government welfare should be abolished. Firstly, these so-called needy people abuse the system and in return risk livelihood of hardworking, tax-payers and put everyone else at risk in the future by draining the limited resources. They do this by having more children out of wedlock to attain more money in their welfare check. Finally these welfare payment overall destroy a person’s morale to work hard. These welfare check receivers no longer work because they do not need to in order to get by every single