Sweet Land of Subsidy
January 25th, 2010 admin
The Cato@Liberty blog today bemoans something it has decided is a meaningful milestone: that the federal government last week added its 2,000 th subsidy program (and then its 2,001 st ). There is one such program “for every year that has passed since Emperor Augustus held sway in Rome,” writes blogger Chris Edwards. “We’ve gone from bread and circuses to food stamps, the National Endowment for the Arts, and 1,999 other hand-out programs from the imperial city on the Potomac.” He continues the Roman theme and the bluster, concluding that the “recent election results indicate that Americans may be starting to wake up and fight back. Whether we are more successful than Cicero and Cato the Younger in battling to retain our limited-government republic remains to be seen.” After I…
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