02-03-2018, 08:41 PM
(01-30-2018, 01:17 PM)David Horn Wrote:(01-30-2018, 04:19 AM)nebraska Wrote: Were there charities before there were food stamps?
Why should the government steal money from Americans at the point of the gun when the private market can provide food aid?
Because charity is limited and targeted. "Desirable people" get help, "undesirable people" don't.
That is also kind of the point aside from the tax burden of a massive bureaucracy to administer. There are dysfunctional behaviors that I do not want to subsidize or encourage.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises