We hear a lot today about the evils of government “entitlements,” and I have no doubt that they can and do get out of hand. For the purposes of this rumination about these government services called entitlements, I would define them as services provided to individual citizens without requiring payment by the user of the service, or at least generally not requiring payment equal to the cost of the service provided. These services are funded by taxation and/or borrowing that does not bear a direct or even indirect relationship to the amount of usage of the services provided.
Of course, there also are entitlements of a sort in the private sector as well, or at least there are folks employed in the private sector who feel entitled to their compensation and benefits whether they have rendered equal value for them. But that is the stuff of another column.
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