Does Offering Valuable Services To Its Citizens Lead to Dictatorship?

Ben Stein may be right about Hitler and the others, but he’s certainly incorrect that a government’s offering valuable services “invariably leads to bad things.”

Here’s a list of countries that offer its citizens free healthcare and education through college:

The entirety of Western Europe and Scandinavia, and most of South America.  Then you have Turkey, Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Kuwait, New Zealand, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.