The author, a professor at the University of California at Davis, talks about our near-to-mid future — with dispossessed and unemployed people living in larger and larger numbers in what I can only guess will be human ghettos, endlessly rising tax rates on the dwindling number of productive members of society to take care of them — and concludes that it’s probably inevitable. This is the newspaper published in Washington, DC.

Tax and Spend, or Face the Consequences

Unfortunately, such measures are only stopgaps. In the end, we may be forced to learn to live in a United States where, by stealth, “from each according to his ability, to each according to his need” becomes the guiding principle of government — or else confront growing, unattended poverty.