All Articles tagged pension

• Articles
  June 17, 2019 CDT
  Beginning the Welfare State: Civil War Veterans’ Pensions
  Murray Rothbard

  Never-before-published essay from Murray Rothbard on one of the first significant welfare programs in the United States: pensions to Union war veterans.

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• Book Reviews
  April 15, 2019 CDT
  Review of Cogan, The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
  Mark Thornton

  Mark Thornton reviews John Cogan's history of failed entitlement programs in the US, from veterans' benefits of the War for Independence to today's damaging but inexorably expanding welfare programs.

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