| | Peter, I don't know where the numbers come from on the body-count state death-spiral. I agree that it would be misleading if they included government workers as 'welfare' recipients. It is also reasonable to expect people to differentiate between those who receive Social Security or Medicare from those who get food stamps, Medicade or housing assistance (or anything that wasn't first paid into by the recipient).
But the underlying principle stays the same. There are states who are engaging in redistribution (in addition to the Federal government) and the takers are growing in number while the makers are decreasing in number. And there are significant differences between states.
If I were writing up an article on this I'd include government workers but only a portion of them (representing a much smaller government with the excess being seen as social parasites) and a portion of the the retired government workers' because of the excess over market in the size of their pensions, and a portion of the workers included in private companies that survive exclusively on government contracts. But it is easier just to come here and pontificate about what others have written :-)
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