Strengthening individual responsibility and competition...

...within the welfare state, too.

The market economy is based on personal autonomy and individual responsibility. But not everyone is in the position to care for themselves adequately. A free society, therefore, requires some social equalization to protect opportunity. Yet when state redistribution schemes run uncontrolled, they cripple individual responsibility and stifle competition, and the problems that were supposed to have been solved by overzealous state programs are in fact worsened.

The Market Economy Foundation takes a stand

• for a social order supportive of and based on individual responsibility and autonomy,

• for the application of a “support with expectations” approach to welfare,

• for more market-based incentives in the public social security system,

• for the deregulation of the labor market.