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Security, Medicare, and Medicaid do the same, and there
is an ongoing debate about how much the beneficiaries
of progressive programs should receive at the expense of
those who pay for them. Regardless of these programs’
good intentions, the object of progressivism is to use government
force to provide economic benefits to some by
imposing costs on others, which leads people to engage in
political entrepreneurship to influence the government to
favor them. Cronies benefit under this system, and those
without strong political connections pay the cost.
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