Sentence examples for unearned benefit from inspiring English sources
"It sticks out as a special kind of unearned benefit that produces unequal opportunities," Mr. Nozick said.
Since there is no such thing as the right of some men to vote away the rights of others, and no such thing as the right of the government to seize the property of some men for the unearned benefit of others the advocates and supporters of the welfare state are morally guilty of robbing their opponents, and the fact that the robbery is legalized makes it morally worse, not better.
The answer isn't to reject all data, measurement, or metrics, but rather to ensure that these tools aren't accorded undue respect, or given an unearned benefit of the doubt.
According to Rand's Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, "every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others".
Women face very real barriers, men are given very real unearned benefits, and these are collective social problems.
Governors in many states are targeting public employees pay and benefits as low hanging fruit, because it has appeared that the false argument that public employees are enjoying unearned benefits had gained traction.
This concept would have been completely foreign to the founding fathers who believed such activity was clearly unconstitutional, yet now it is common for people to declare that their fellow citizens (and even sometimes noncitizens) have a right to claim unearned benefits with no aggregate limit to those claims.
No trained economist seriously believes that shoveling unearned benefits to people who just happen to own or inherit financial assets is good for growth, productivity or anything else.
As a white man, in terms of race and gender, I am according automatic and unearned benefits and privilege withheld from people of color and women.
For some, we think they are extremely fortunate, receive a "free ride", are entitled and receive unearned benefits because of their status, and overall popular.
High on the list of targets for elimination or consolidation will be welfare programs not connected to payroll taxes, and therefore widely perceived as unearned benefits.
