. . . it is one thing for a person to choose not to work and to accept the natural consequences of that decision, but quite another indeed for a person to choose not to work because others are being forced to subsidize his well-being. One can reasonably attest that redistributing wealth to underwrite preferred social outcomes is necessary or virtuous or kind or practical — or even, more cynically, that it is the inexorable end product of a democratic system in which one man can vote himself the contents of another’s wallet. But one cannot claim that it makes either man free — at least not without twisting the word and the concept that it represents beyond all meaningful recognition.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:55:22 +0000
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