Contributor(s): Author: John F.
His work provides a unifying explanation for the evolutionary path that nearly all Federal Entitlement Programs have followed over the past two hundred years, tracing both their shared past and the financial risks they pose for future generations..
This process--as visible in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as in the present day--is repeated until benefits are extended to nearly all who could be considered eligible, and in turn establishes a new base for future expansions.
Cogan reveals how the creation of entitlements brings forth a steady march of liberalizing forces that cause Entitlement Programs to expand.
Combining economics, history, political science, and law, John F.
The High Cost of Good Intentions is the first comprehensive History of these Federal Entitlement programs.
Neither tax revenues nor revenues generated by the national economy have been able to keep pace with their rising growth, bringing the national debt to a record peacetime level.
Yet as Federal Entitlement Programs have grown, so too have their inefficiency and their cost. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitute through no fault of their own.
Cogan Federal Entitlement Programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.
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Contributor(s): Author: John F
