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The Entitlement Titanic Has Already Hit the Iceberg

April 5, 2017 By Richard C. Young

At International Liberty, Dan Mitchell lays out six charts from the CBO that make the case that America’s entitlement programs are the Titanic, after it hit the iceberg, but people are still getting on board. Even though they know the ship is going down, they’re more interested in the promise of fancy buffets and free drinks, writes Mitchell.

I sometimes feel like a broken record about entitlement programs. How many times, after all, can I point out that America is on a path to become a decrepit European-style welfare state because of a combination of demographic changesand poorly designed entitlement programs?

But I can’t help myself. I feel like I’m watching a surreal version of Titanic where the captain and crew know in advance that the ship will hit the iceberg, yet they’re still allowing passengers to board and still planning the same route. And in this dystopian version of the movie, the tickets actually warn the passengers that tragedy will strike, but most of them don’t bother to read the fine print because they are distracted by the promise of fancy buffets and free drinks.

We now have the book version of this grim movie. It’s called The 2017 Long-Term Budget Outlook and it was just released today by the Congressional Budget Office.

If you’re a fiscal policy wonk, it’s an exciting publication. If you’re a normal human being, it’s a turgid collection of depressing data.

But maybe, just maybe, the data is so depressing that both the electorate and politicians will wake up and realize something needs to change.

Read more here.

Dan Mitchell on Trump, Entitlements, and the Burden of Government Spending

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