Asked who would bear the burden of the massive welfare cut, Lee was non-committal.
"Therefore the claims of massive welfare gains and losses from building industry regulatory changes are nonsense," he concluded.
"The 2013 farm bill has become little more than a vehicle for massive welfare spending and taxpayer-funded corporate cronyism," said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity.
All this in a city convulsed by massive welfare, housing benefit and legal aid cuts, spiralling unemployment and rising social protests.
The UN also cannot spend money training Iraqi doctors or teachers an obstacle no amount of imported medicines or textbooks can make up for.To the extent that it works, the oil-for-food scheme has turned Iraq into a massive welfare scheme.
The oil-for-food system functions, and would continue to function, like a massive welfare scheme, providing unemployed and despairing Iraqis with enough food and medicine to survive, but precluding any sort of productive work or investment.That would ensure the continued misery of most Iraqis, but it would probably not bother Mr Hussein very much.
The problem is that taxes on Petrleos de Venezuela fund the countrys massive welfare state.
"Some people might like to see that, but in the UK there are massive welfare implications," says the Kennel Club.
As oil prices shriveled last year — crimping the countrys massive welfare state — Venezuelans voted in socialist president Hugo Chavez.
Cynics (particularly those leaving comments on Legatum's excellent website) say Norway's ranking is a fluke, that it's a boring, godless (just 13% go to church) homogeneous place to live with a massive welfare state bankrolled by high taxes.
Progressive taxation underpinned massive welfare programs, which enabled large-scale infrastructure projects and helped establish robust consumer markets across the world.
