Welfare for the Well-off

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Mon, 11/15/2010 - 12:00am
How government widens the gap between the rich and the rest of us

 The US government provides  spends more on subsidies for the wealthy than it does on aid to the poor, and almost as much as it spends on the the military.   This op-ed by David R. Francis, read here by Tom Becker, explains how public policy widens the growing gap between the very rich and the rest of us.  (See also on this topic a piece from Counterpunch.)

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