Biden broke our welfare system. He needs to stop paying people for not working

Biden broke our welfare system. He needs to stop paying people for not working. Getting Americans back into jobs is good for them and the US economy.

Very few people with even minimal skills can credibly say they can't find a job. Employers report some 10 million job openings. Small business owners say their biggest problem is finding competent workers.   Stephen Moore is a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation and an economist. He is also co-founder of the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.  His latest book is "Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government is Devouring our Economy."

There are many explanations for why so many people aren't working – fear of COVID-19, the skills mismatch, more people taking early retirement, and so on. But a major factor is that the federal government is back to doing what it did in the 1970s and 1980s. The welfare state today is paying people not to work – even a single hour.