Welfare by Any Other NameLast week I was taken to task by a reader for classifying WIC WIC - WAN Interface Card (government aid to Women, Infants, and Children) as welfare. He said this was an incorrect categorization of WIC. His rationale rationale (rash´  nal´),n the fundamental reasons used as the basis for a decision or action. centered around the ubiquity Ubiquity See also Omnipresence. Burma-Shave their signs seen as “verses of the wayside throughout America.” [Am. Commerce and Folklore: Misc. of the program, i.e., he claimed that almost any single mother could qualify for it. I’m not sure whether he is right in making such an estimate. However, it wouldn’t matter if everyone in America America [for Amerigo Vespucci], the lands of the Western Hemisphere—North America, Central (or Middle) America, and South America. The world map published in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller is the first known cartographic use of the name. qualified for it. That’s not the point. The point is that WIC is an unearned government handout, which qualifies it as welfare. It’s not like Social Security or Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. , programs that people pay into when they are younger and draw benefits from when they are older. WIC, on the other hand, frequently provides benefits to those who pay little or no taxes, while those who pay the most taxes will likely never see a dime from it. It’s just another government redistribution-of-wealth scheme, aka welfare. You can call it whatever you would like. Welfare by any other name is still welfare. 
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