Thomas Jefferson believed that the legitimate powers of government were related to only those acts which were injurious to others.
The current public funding policy began with FDR during the Great Depression. His "New Deal" lifted millions out of poverty and unemployment and is responsible for the construction of 650,000 miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 125,000 buildings, and seven hundred miles of airport runways.
A lot of FDR's ideas came from his predecessor, Republican Herbert Hoover, and his "Emergency Relief Administration". FERA provided work for over 20 million people and developed facilities on public lands across the country at a cost of $3.1 billion.
As for the current democrat/republican view:
"If you give a man a fish, he eats for a day. If you teach a man to fish, he eats for life" Democrats prefer to "give a man a fish" without expecting him to work towards self-sufficiency. Republicans prefer the "teach a man to fish" approach, as long as it doesn't include a hand-out. As is typically the case, the best answer lies somewhere in the middle. There is no use in "teaching a man to fish" if he starves while learning.
2006-11-12 07:31:22
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answered by john_stolworthy 6
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Thomas Jefferson was a liberal, as were most of the founding fathers. Jefferson believed that all education should be free and in fact founded the University of Virginia as a free school. I'm sure he'd be for national health care and programs to take care of the people.
2006-11-12 10:18:00
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answered by ggarsk 3
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Public funding is a relatively new concept. Niether Jefferson nor his colleagues most likely believed in it. In fact, given Jefferson's committment to natural rights, he probably would have been against it if someone had proposed the idea
2006-11-12 07:29:59
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answered by Dan 4
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in my opinion, the entire "license" factor is in line with a minimum of two issues: a million) In a capitalistic society, which comprise ours, that is a fashion of starting to be money for countless government courses, e;g;, "fishing and organic international" - courses, that is meant to help in retaining the fisheries, and the critters we want so as to maintain an ecological stability, and 2) investment for the dep.. workers, workplace work in touch, (documents on documents to maintain a stability of fish and organic international interior our environment) and different expenditures. Now, the seize is: who're they doing this for, incredibly? We, the electorate, or greater wasteful government spending?
2016-11-23 17:43:53
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answered by ? 4
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He would have been opposed to any welfare/other similar programme simply because of the cost(read: taxes) involved. He would be more of a Libertarian in today's politics. He was for minimal government involvement in people's lives.
2006-11-12 08:53:26
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answered by Black Sabbath 6
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Public funding of what....welfare..he'd have been against it....public buildings...he'd have been for it.
2006-11-12 07:33:11
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answered by ? 5
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