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Extract from an opinion by Robert Carling: In democratic welfare states, the proportion of the electorate that attracts more in social benefits from government than it pays in tax has become so large that candidates who promise to curb the welfare state have a hard time winning elections. The same issue has been raised in … Continue reading ""