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Ron Paul highlights in GOP Presidential debate
Ron Paul as usual defended liberty and the constitution in the first presidential debate in South Carolina. Here are the highlights:
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
The Great Socialist Misconception
The logical short-comings of socialism have been known for a long time.
Nearly 200 years ago, the great classical liberal thinker Frédéric Bastiat wrote:
His critique still applies today to socialist-leaning individuals.
Bastiat wrote 'The Law', one of the most famous classical liberal works. The Law argues that the only just use of government power is to protect the right of individuals to their person, their liberty, and their property. When governments are used to plunder from one group to give to another, then they because instruments of injustice, rather than providers of it.
'The Law' can be found online here.
Nearly 200 years ago, the great classical liberal thinker Frédéric Bastiat wrote:
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
His critique still applies today to socialist-leaning individuals.
Bastiat wrote 'The Law', one of the most famous classical liberal works. The Law argues that the only just use of government power is to protect the right of individuals to their person, their liberty, and their property. When governments are used to plunder from one group to give to another, then they because instruments of injustice, rather than providers of it.
'The Law' can be found online here.
The Unintended Consequences Of The Welfare State
Forbes recently published an excellent article about the immorality of welfare advocacy:
The Unintended Consequences Of The Welfare State
James Otteson,
It is morally wrong to live off of the fruits of others' labor.
The welfare state seems to be corrupting some of our core moral principles.
That wasn't its intention, but if there is one thing we know about government programs, it is that they rarely do what they were intended to do. This moral corruption is eminently on display in the increasingly common, and increasingly loud, protests over cuts in state budgets, and we will soon see it in the looming fight over whether to raise the federal debt ceiling. (continued..) source
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