America has devolved into a fast-expanding welfare state, quickly surpassing $1 trillion a year

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When people say that America "is the land of the free," they aren't kidding. That's because a record number of our citizens are now on some form of government assistance, with Uncle Sam's dwindling number of taxpayers being forced to cough up more than a trillion dollars...

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