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Stealing from each other : how the welfare state robs Americans of money and spirit / Edgar K. Browning.

Van Pelt Library HV91 .B713 2008
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Browning, Edgar K.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Public welfare--United States.
Public welfare.
United States.
Welfare state.
United States--Social policy.
Social policy.
Physical Description:
xii, 226 pages ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2008.
Contents:
Introduction
Egalitarianism and the market
Inequality
Group inequalities
Incomes around the world
Poverty
Our trillion dollar welfare system
Social security and medicare
More transfers
Taxation
The (many) costs of transfers
Just say no
Notes
Index.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-218) and index.
ISBN:
9780313348228
0313348227
OCLC:
176861127

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