The Republican Welfare State

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The Republican Welfare State (Yet Again)
by Laurence Vance


The Republicans are expanding the welfare state almost as much as they are increasing the warfare state.

In a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, chief actuary Richard Foster predicts that the federal government will soon be paying for half the cost of all health care in the United States. A major contributing factor: the Bush administration's new Medicare drug benefit, now estimated to cost almost double its initial $400 billion price tag. And that is just for its first ten years. By 2015, the annual cost is expected to be $100 billion.

But since it is tax time once again, the focus of this article is not on the Republican-sponsored slide toward socialized medicine, it is instead on Republican tax welfare. It is the Republican-controlled Congress that writes the tax laws; specifically, the House Ways and Means Committee.


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1. Agree, except the recipients of the welfare are the Rich.

The Rich are the only people whose lots are improving in this economy. And every single step this administration has taken has ensured that this would be the result.

We are witnesses to the fleecing of a nation.