The Problem with the Welfare State
Writing by abuhatem on Sunday, 2 of December , 2007 at 11:40 pm
The Local - ‘Workshy’ couple see benefits reduced
This article comes out of Sweeden where The Local, a Sweedish newspaper reports that:
For almost ten years the husband and wife pair have asserted their
right to opt out of the rat race and live on a combination of state
support and their own crops.
So the government has the right to take 60% of a person’s property, which he either worked for or was given - his personal right - and give it to people who decide not to work but are able?
The Founding Fathers of this country never believed in using taxation as a tool to “equalize,” incomes. Actually, they believed that diversity in income inequality was something natural and normal not to be tempered with by the state. They feared the state which would have power to tax a person’s income, but this right was lost with the 14th Amendment in 1914.
While there are religious arguments abound from the Judeo-Christian-Islamic perspective concerning the natural right to one’s property (with some exceptions of course, such as tithe or the Islamic zakat) - a right which is clearly defined in the Bible and Qur’an - the rational basis for such arguments returns to John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government which clearly argues the case for one’s private property and one’s own labor. It’s worth a read.
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