Stealing from Each Other How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit

Name: Stealing from Each Other How the Welfare State Robs Americans of Money and Spirit
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ISBN: 9780313348228

ISBN-10: 0313348227

ISBN-13: 9780313348228

Edition: 2008

Authors: Edgar K. Browning

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Almost all Americans would be better off if none of the federal welfare-state policies of the last century--including Social Security--had ever been enacted. So argues economist Edgar Browning, and with good reason: In 1900, government played a very small role in the day-to-day activities of American citizens. There was no income tax. No Social Security. No federal welfare programs. No minimum wage laws. No federal involvement in education. Government was small, spending well under 10 percent of our incomes. But now, federal, state, and local governments spend more than 33 percent of our incomes. Why has government grown so much over the past century? The answer, in Browning's devastating…

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List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Egalitarianism and the Market



Inequality



Group Inequalities



Incomes around the World



Poverty



Our Trillion Dollar Welfare System



Social Security and Medicare



More Transfers



Taxation



The (Many) Costs of Transfers



Just Say No


Notes


Index