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From: "aschwin de wolf" <>
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Subject: Re: The "right" to welfare
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 20:54:25 -0400

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> > Defense spending as a percentage of GDP is not that high. If cuts need to be
> > made it should be in other areas (like welfare).
> 

> Excuse me!? Who the hell are you to say such a brainless and callous thing? 
Have you ever needed
> welfare? I highly doubt it! 

Then you're mistaken.


As a matter of fact I don't have a job at the moment but as a matter of 
principle I don't accept *stolen* money. 

For the theoretical underpinnings of this view see my website Against Politics:
http://www.againstpolitics.com/

Or Bryan Caplan's excellent paper on the subject:
"Behavioral Economics and Perverse Effects of the Welfare State":
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/perfinal.doc

Or Jan Narveson - "We Don't owe them a thing" about the "right" to welfare:
http://www.etsu.edu/philos/classes/hhl/we.don%27t.owe.them.a.thing.pdf



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