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Arthur Brooks: If you care about the poor, you must support entitlement reform

Saturday, June 1st, 2013

There’s evidence, and then there’s supposition and rhetoric based on emotion without any data. The latter screams that anyone who calls for entitlement reform hates poor people and wants grandma to eat cat food. The former knows that when entitlement states collapse, the poor suffer the most.

Absent reform, ours will eventually collapse. So who hates the poor—those who want t prevent that, or those who simply demagogue the subject to increase their own power?

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Does Medicare Want Your Doctor to Quit?

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

I am a physician in private practice who enjoys taking care of elderly patients. Because most retirees over age 65 who want to be insured have no choice but to enroll in the Medicare program, I have continued to cooperate with the program. Many of my physician colleagues have opted out of Medicare, and I wonder how long I can hold out. As I continue to be presented with new Medicare requirements, it appears I am being given two choices. I can continue to provide comprehensive, personalized care ...

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Where Does Your Tax Dollar Go?

Monday, April 29th, 2013

ICYMI, on Tax Day, Heritage provided a useful chart showing federal spending, by percent, laid out on an image of a dollar bill. As it happens, we at Western Free Press did the same thing last year. Below are the two charts. Notice how entitlement spending is going up (this time, Social Security)? Note that eventually, entitlement spending will crowd out all other spending, consuming all revenue.