Remaking America
Welcome to the Dark Side of the Welfare State
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America’s flirtation with the welfare state resembles the love affair in the cinematic thriller “Ghost Story,” wherein a young college professor meets a strange but beautiful woman, is mesmerized and falls in love. The more deeply he gets involved with her, the less attention he pays to his work. He becomes increasingly unproductive, neglects his duties and squanders his career, all because of the strange woman. Not until it’s too late does he realize that she has a very dark and sinister side. She is the ghost of a woman whose death was caused long ago by the young man’s father and his friends. By the time she delivers on her eerie promise –“and I will see the life run out of you” – he has nowhere to run. As equally seductive, and equally destructive, as the preternatural woman are the promises made for our country by the advocates of the welfare state.
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Despite the American left's admiration of the Swedish welfare no one has told its true story yet. Until now. Sven R Larson reveals the dark side of the welfare state: how government-run health care turns patients into budget items and corpses, how government defaults on promise after promise, crime is rampant, 500 schools are burned to the ground every year and children grow up with no loyalty to their country. Larson explains how politicians turn to fiscal fascism to save the welfare state from the people who depend on it.
About the Author
Sven R Larson is a reserach fellow with Wyoming Liberty Group, a free market think tank in Wyoming. Prior to joining Wyoming Liberty Group Larson did research on economic freedom, fiscal policy, taxes, health reform, entitlements and the welfare state for several different think tanks. He is originally from Sweden, earned his Ph.D. in Denmark and has lived and worked in the United States since 2002.