Good parents try to raise their children from a state of dependency into independent adults. Bad governments, by contrast, seek to turn adults back into dependent children. Dependent on government, that is.
The left has a euphemism for this desired state of dependency: the universal welfare state.
Republicans are describing the recently passed $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) — also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package — as a massive transfer of wealth from successful red states to failing, deficit-ridden blue states and to favored Democratic Party constituencies, such as teachers’ unions and the AFL-CIO. It certainly is that, but there’s more.
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