Benefits We Earned

Social Security and Medicare are federal welfare programs, according to Robert J. Samuelson ["Welfare State Stasis," op-ed, Feb. 14], because each fits his definition of a welfare program ("current benefits for select populations, paid for by current taxes"), thereby bolstering his argument that the size of the welfare state has made federal budgeting an exercise in futility....

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