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Entitlement explosion.(Indicators)(Brief Article)
National defense consumes vastly less of your federal taxes compared to 40 years ago. But a tsunami of new spending on Medicare, Social Security, and other welfare "entitlements" has left lawmakers with less control over the nation's spending.
Mandatory spending now represents more than two thirds of the federal ...
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