New at Reason: John Stossel on Government Spending

October 8, 2009

The theory of government most of us were taught says that government provides benefits, primarily security, to the entire population. In return we pay taxes. But as John Stossel writes, lately the government has been a distributor of special privileges, taking money from some and giving it to others. America is now about evenly split between those who pay income taxes and those who consume them.

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