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'Freedom's Furies' tells how three women offered their own unique defenses of individual liberty and how their disagreements anticipated the differences among libertarians and classical liberals today.
The Index raises concerns about the ability of local governments toprovide aid and other assistance. They raise as well a traditionalrepublican concern about the long-term viability of politicalinstitutions when a significant portion of the population becomesdependent on government for most or all of their income.
The Index of Dependence on Government measures the growth in spending on dependence-creating programs that supplant the role of civil society. Dependence on government in the U.S. rose again in 2011, the year of the most recently available data, and which is principally assessed by this report. A solid majority of Americans polled by Rasmussen believe that government dependence is too high. In a September 2013 poll, 67 percent of adults nationwide said that too many Americans are dependent on the government.[1]