Opinion | Americans are growing ever more dependent on government entitlements - The Washington Post

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A mountain of government payments buries the myth of American self-reliance

George F. Will •

A report called “The Great ‘Transfer’-mation” spells out huge increases in government entitlement programs.

The only reason this crap gets published is so WaPo can participate in bothsiderism.

Will is not wrong that covering healthcare and social security for seniors is expensive. Despite acknowledging these increased "transfers"1 are due to aging, he doesn't mention that since his starting point of the 1970s, the wealth gap has increased dramatically, which means that despite the increased government spending, the middle class isn't keeping up.

The gaps in income between upper-income and middle- and lower-income households are rising, and the share held by middle-income households is falling
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It's a fallacy to state that this increased government spending leads to an economy in distress (the economy is not in distress), or that we can't afford to pay for it (if we choose to).

And what this has to do with blunt dart tips, I couldn't tell you.

Footnotes

  1. Another name is "entitlements", which The Post corrects in its summary. ↩