Leslie Loftis

Jul 13, 2017

1 min read

…re related, and in fact they reinforce one another.

When government grows, civil society recedes. Just to give one recent example: According to AEI researcher Bradford Wilcox, almost one-third of Americans report that they personally know someone who has not gotten married for fear of losing a means-tested government benefit.

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Or another example, this one fixable by easier changes in law than rolling back federal government benefits if only because it has bi-partisan support in polling: custody reform.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/31/to-fix-marriage-we-need-to-fix-divorce/

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