The Death of a Nation

"The question of legal plunder must be settled once and for all, and there are only three ways to settle it:
    1.  The few plunder the many.
    2.  Everybody plunders everybody.
    3.  Nobody plunders anybody.
We must make our choice among limited plunder, universal plunder, and no plunder. The law can follow only one of these three."  - Frederic Bastiat


What’s wrong with the State providing it’s citizens a social safety net?  Plenty. Social safety nets

• reward failure and sloth
• reinforce the victimhood paradigm
• are the political tools of vote buying demagogues
• eventually bankrupts the nation
• destroy wealth through transfer payments
• have a corrosive effect on the merits of citizenship
• fail to adequately take into account human nature
• accelerate societal decay
• enable the feckless to plunder those who behave responsibly
• hold hostage the productive members of society
• are State sponsored theft
• undermine the legitimacy of the government

Ignoring for the moment the Constitutional argument against social engineering, funding for the safety net can only come through enforcement of revenue laws - which of course means at gunpoint.  It never ceases to amaze me that people blithely support progressive causes while the formidable powers of the State are used to implement their policies.  All of this will ultimately lead to the death of our nation.