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Would you like your college education to be free? Sure, who wouldn’t? Well, the people of Tunisia and Egypt are learning that whenever the government supplies something, it is never really “free.” In Tunisia, “free” university education is guaranteed to anyone who passes the government’s exams at the end of high school. Largely as a result of

Many people think life without the welfare state would be chaos. In their minds, nobody would help support the less fortunate, and there would be riots in the streets. Little do they know that people found innovative ways of supporting each other before the welfare state existed. One of the most important of these ways was the mutual-aid society.