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I suppose if you count SS and Medicare as "welfare" and add it in to the cost of the war on poverty, that would be the most costly war. I submit that neither SS nor Medicare are welfare, as the recipients paid for it out of their checks for years before getting any benefit. No, I believe that the war on poverty is only the second most expensive war. While I agree that welfare, meaning doling out money to people who haven't earned it without expecting anything in return, is a bad idea, the war on poverty is cheap compared to the war on drugs.On the other hand, if you count farm subsidies and other forms of corporate welfare as a part of the war on poverty, you could be right. It could be more costly in the whole than the war on drugs, but not by much.
I suppose if you count SS and Medicare as "welfare" and add it in to the cost of the war on poverty, that would be the most costly war. I submit that neither SS nor Medicare are welfare, as the recipients paid for it out of their checks for years before getting any benefit.
No, I believe that the war on poverty is only the second most expensive war. While I agree that welfare, meaning doling out money to people who haven't earned it without expecting anything in return, is a bad idea, the war on poverty is cheap compared to the war on drugs.
On the other hand, if you count farm subsidies and other forms of corporate welfare as a part of the war on poverty, you could be right. It could be more costly in the whole than the war on drugs, but not by much.
