A large share of health spending is spent ferrying patients to clinics.But handouts, argues a local businessman, themselves discourage the creation of a productive local economy.
A Labour government from 2015-20 has to be about redistributing power and not resources, he argues, if only because austerity makes cash handouts impossible and power becomes the new money.
As to whether clientilism hooks on poverty, Stokes (2007 618) has argued that "poor people value a handout more highly than do wealthy people; hence, if one is going to hand out goodies, one will target the poor…" She further argues that "… poor people are risk averse and hence value more highly a bag of goodies in hand today than the promise of a redistributive public policy tomorrow…" (ibid).
Proponents of tough restrictions on public aid to immigrants argue that handouts will only draw more illegal immigrants.
In 2001 Singapore's then prime minister argued that handouts would result in a "crutch mentality, which will lead to indolence, dependence and abuse".To ward off social ills, the region has tended to rely instead on youthful populations, bountiful growth and dutiful families.
So we have someone who makes $25 million a year, at least in part from taxpayer handouts, who runs around the country complaining about retired workers getting $1,300 a month from Social Security, whining because he has to argue to continue the handouts he receives.
The oil industry has historically argued that it deserved this handout, because it's in a business much riskier than, say, pouring steel or making cars.
Handouts from the taxpayer are needed, power firms argue, since the technology in question is still young.
They know a scam when they see one," Inslee said, arguing that the GOP tax plan would hurt rural voters by giving handouts to corporations to the detriment of the middle class.
As George Monbiot argued last week, government plans to incentivise people to replace their cars with a £2,000 cash handout will exacerbate the environmental impact of car use, and are unlikely to make vulnerable jobs more secure.
