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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/07/killing_with_kindness_the_dangers_of_moral_hazards.html

Moral hazards are easy to understand on a personal level but, when it comes to encouraging “the government” to give “free” money to an erstwhile “good cause,” virtue signaling easily trumps a cost/benefit analysis.

It has not been easy to rein in federal government spending. Lurid tales of federal government collapse fall on deaf ears. Ditto for pleas that “while it might be a good idea, we just cannot afford it.” As with drug addicts, appetites overwhelm reason.

This aversion to restraint is particularly notable in the liberal reaction to President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” that cut tens of billions in “safety net” programs. Critics portrayed the bill as a death sentence for America’s poor and desperate people overseas. For these free-spenders, surely Uncle Sam can come to the rescue, print more money and save the world.

Fortunately, a compelling argument against overspending exists, albeit one seldom heard in today’s debate: moral hazard According to one definition: ‘a moral hazard is a situation where an economic actor has an incentive to increase its exposure to risk because it does not bear the full costs associated with that risk, should things go wrong.” Moral hazards encourage excessive risk-taking.

Consider the “Trump will Kill People” panic surrounding the bill’s reducing funding for the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP) or, colloquially, Food Stamps. SNAP is designed to help poor people supplement their diets, and while administered by individual states, it is largely Washington financed. Purchases were initially limited, but it now permits recipients to buy nearly everything except alcohol and tobacco products, pet food, prepared meals, cleaning supplies, cosmetics, paper products, and food containing marijuana. SNAP guidelines do not exclude soft drinks, snacks and “junk food.” There are currently 42 million SNAP participants, with 62% of them families with children.

https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/15/is-there-no-cure-for-democrats-derangement/

We’ve noted before that today’s Democrats are operating with a mental deficit. A new poll further confirms they are a broken people. While it’s good for a cheap laugh, because they are often smug, condescending and hateful to those who disagree with them, their fragile psychological state poses a threat to the republic.

A Rasmussen poll released Monday found that 60% of Democratic voters still believe “the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to win the 2016 election.” As disturbing as that is, 69% of those who self-identify as “liberals” believe Donald Trump conspired with Moscow to beat Hillary Clinton.

The poll indicates that Trump Derangement Syndrome is not limited to the Democratic side: 45% of moderates also believe in the Russia hoax, while 27% of conservatives hold the same view. (Are there really that many Never Trumpers on the right?)

For the record, the Trump-Russia partnership was a fabrication set loose by Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and a number of Democratic Party minions. More than two years ago, special counsel John Durham released a report, compiled over three years, that, according to CNN, “concluded that the FBI should never have launched a full investigation into connections between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.”

The FBI probe, said Durham, was based on “raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated intelligence” and corrupted by “confirmation bias.”

In other words, there was nothing to investigate, because the entire rancid stew was concocted to drive Trump from the presidency. “President Obama” and then-CIA Director John Brennan “knew before the FBI opened up on that information that this was a dirty trick by Hillary Clinton,” says John Solomon, chief executive and editor in chief of Just the News.