Regular welfare programs like food stamps, free school lunches, subsidized housing, WIC, and Medicaid are clearly unconstitutional and illegitimate. They redistribute wealth and transfer income from “taxpayers” to “tax eaters.” Now, while welfare programs that hand out cash payments like TANF, SSI, and refundable tax credits like the EITC should and could be immediately abolished, I will be the first to admit—even though I have written extensivelyagainst the welfare state and oppose it root and branch—that, rightly or wrongly, these regular welfare programs do help a great number of people and many families are now dependent upon them. Medicare and Social Security, while both welfare programs, are a little different since they are partly (in the case of Medicare) and mostly (in the case of Social Security) funded by payroll taxes. And these are programs that have fostered dependency like none other. All welfare programs should, of course, be eliminated, but there are other things more insidious that should have a higher priority.
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Libertarians and ‘Progressive Liberals’ not at all the same thing
May 3, 2016
Posted in Agenda 21, Bernie Sanders, Big Ed, Big Gov, Border Jumpers, Cloward-Piven strategy, GOSSIP!, Hillary Clinton, New World Order, politics, president obama, Uncategorized, Vast Left Wing Conspiracy |
Tags: 'Progressive Liberals' redistribute wealth and transfer income from “Taxpayers” to “Tax Eaters", Another agency with an evil mission is the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), Conservatives generally want to simplify the tax code - reduce government waste and fraud, Libertarian Priorities - Laurence M. Vance - LewRockwell.com, Regular welfare programs like food stamps are clearly unconstitutional and illegitimate, Some government agencies and programs are pure evil, The federal Department of Education must also be included at the top of the Evil List, The Libertarian goal is ultimately a free society where the non-aggression principle is the foundational principle, The State is also actively seeking to increase and expand its power and its interventions into the economy and society, The State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area
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