Bryan Caplan describes his rationale for cutting away at the welfare state. This appears on the website Library of Economics and Liberty, funded by the Liberty Fund.
The Liberty Fund is a tax exempt foundation "...established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals." Does this sound like the usual libertarian smokescreen? Why yes, yes it does. The Wikipedia entry for this foundation includes the following: "In his book The Assault on Reason, Al Gore says that between 2002 and 2004 that 97% of the attendees at Liberty Fund training seminars for judges were Republican administration appointees. Gore suggests that such conferences and seminars are one of the reasons that judges who regularly attend such conferences 'are generally responsible for writing the most radical pro-corporate, antienvironmental, and activist decisions.'"
Caplan is a member of the Economics Department at George Mason University, home of such luminaries as Tyler Cowan, and point source for many of the vilest right-wing trial balloons to appear over the last few years. Truly, this is a cesspit of sociopath assholes, and I imagine Caplan feels very much at home.