Americans More Reliant on Government

The so-called "Great Recession" has left Americans depending on the government dole like never before.

Without record levels of welfare, unemployment and other government benefits as well as tax cuts last year, the income of U.S. households would have plunged by an astonishing $723 billion — more than four times the record $167 billion drop reported last month by the Commerce Department.

Moreover, for the first time since the Great Depression, Americans took more aid from the government than they paid in taxes.

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Editor's Note: My father, an attorney and Air Force JAG, warned that the greatest danger to American liberty was "creeping socialism" as it creates dependency and poverty.