In my last column, I discussed
[https://amherststudent.com/article/symposium-frozen-texas-and-the-welfare-question]
the rhetoric surrounding the Texas freeze, the relief going to Texas and
Republican arguments about relief and redistributive government programs in
general. I showed how the moral arguments of personal responsibility and pulling
oneself up by the bootstraps are self-defeating and lead to stagnation. I also
showed how the empirical arguments against these relief policies are predi