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What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible.
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and demonize those who disagree with them - instead of answering their arguments.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.
What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? Theft. What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? Robbery. What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in taxes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
Social Engineering - The art of replacing what works with what sounds good.
We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.
One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.
