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Daily Archive for April 15th, 2011

Asks Coyote: Paul Ryan is catching grief for his proposal to convert Medicare from “all the medical care you wish to consume” to grants of $X per year.  This seems unimaginable to people (forgetting for a moment that the US functioned for nearly 200 years without it at all). But what if Social Security were […]

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Too Big to Fail?

Here are some facts about the US government (and its component parts): A new study by the OECD shows that the federal US government spends 141% more more per person than the average of the OECD countries, and only Norway spends more. What does this spending get us? Consider the major criticisms of the US […]

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