How the US nationalised family, privatised state

It was when the US GDP rose by 518 per cent and its GDP per capita by 377 per cent, the number of state-dependent households rose by two-thirds, to almost half the US families, and the number of tax-paying Americans dropped by one-seventh. Today, if eight Americans pay tax, 10 Americans not only don't, but live on the state. How come even when the US economy was regarded as the most prosperous and powerful on earth, more and more people queued up for food stamps, subsidised homes, cash welfare, medicare-medicaid and the like and still do?

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