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American Socialism for the Already Rich

By Christopher Howard, Democracy: a Journal of Ideas. Posted March 27, 2007.


Call it phony universalism, Robin Hood in reverse, or socialism for the rich -- the United States spends almost as much helping the have-plenties as the have-nots.
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Christopher Howard is Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary and the author of the new book "The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy."

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