DUKE: Britain’s Welfare State Is A Gravy Train Headed For Disaster

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GOD SAVE THE GRAVY TRAIN

If I knew tennis elbow could qualify you for a new car every three years, I might have considered moving across the pond.

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Minnesota, it turns out, doesn’t have a monopoly on absurd welfare scams.

According to a new Wall Street Journal investigation, Britain’s government-backed disability programs have grown so expansive that people with wheat intolerance and dyslexia are qualifying for taxpayer-subsidized car leases, while one woman who claimed debilitating anxiety collected monthly checks and went ziplining in Cancún.

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The total cost of these programs has ballooned to the point that Britain now spends roughly a third more on sickness and disability benefits than it does on national defense.

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And politicians can’t figure out how to put the genie back in the bottle.

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