{"id":7357,"date":"2010-10-14T14:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7357"},"modified":"2010-10-14T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:39:06","slug":"heritage-foundation-releases-2010-%e2%80%98dependence-on-government-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7357\/heritage-foundation-releases-2010-%e2%80%98dependence-on-government-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Foundation Releases 2010 \u2018Dependence on Government&#8217; Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed reading material for your daily \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two_Minutes_Hate\" target=\"_blank\">two minutes&#8217; hate<\/a>\u2019 this month, the Heritage Foundation released today its much-anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/research\/reports\/2010\/10\/the-2010-index-of-dependence-on-government \" target=\"_blank\"><em>2010 Index of Dependence on Government<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not cheerful reading.\u00a0 From the abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The number of Americans who pay taxes continues to shrink\u2014and the United States is close to the point at which half of the population will not pay taxes for government benefits they receive. In 2009, 64.3 million Americans depended on the government (read: their fellow citizens) for their daily housing, food, and health care. Starting in 2015, the Social Security program will not receive enough taxes to pay all the promised benefits\u2014which will be hard for all job-holders, but devastating for roughly half the American workforce that has no other retirement program. Add in last year\u2019s preposterously named American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, spiraling academic grants, flat-out farm socialism, the swelling ranks of Americans who believe themselves entitled to \u201cfree\u201d government benefits\u2014and now the government takeover of the nation\u2019s health care system\u2014and the very nature of this country\u2019s republican form of government is called into question. Like they have been doing since 2002, Heritage Foundation policy experts lay out the increasingly gloomy facts. Can Americans pull back from the brink of complete dependence on government?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>A great companion piece to Heritage\u2019s \u2018Dependence Index\u2019 is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prosperity.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Legatum Institute\u2019s \u2018Prosperity Index,\u2019<\/a> an equally in-depth look at policies that <em>grow<\/em> individual wealth instead of destroy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you needed reading material for your daily \u2018two minutes&#8217; hate\u2019 this month, the Heritage Foundation released today its much-anticipated 2010 Index of Dependence on Government. It\u2019s not cheerful reading.\u00a0 From the abstract: The number of Americans who pay taxes continues to shrink\u2014and the United States is close to the point at which half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1945,1102,1943,1944],"class_list":["post-7357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-dependence","tag-heritage-foundation","tag-legatum-institute","tag-prosperity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7360,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7357\/revisions\/7360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}