In Biden’s America, everyone is entitled to everything

Published July 16, 2021 3:00am ET



Despite its liberal tendencies, the Washington Post editorial board once acknowledged that in a democracy, “everyone can’t be entitled to everyone else’s money.”

Well, it may have had that wrong because President Joe Biden is supersizing the entitlement state of America at a pace that makes Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society initiatives seem like a fiscal bargain. By the way, that was the infamous War on Poverty that spent more than $5 trillion over the next 25 years, and as the old saying goes: We fought a war on poverty, and poverty won.

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