Have you become a libertairian?
>>From Jan. 1 until May 8, five months out of the year, the government decides how our earnings are spent. Williams likened this to slavery in the sense that someone works all year and someone else decides how the fruits of his or her labor will be used. So in effect, Americans are nearly halfway towards economic slavery.
The primary justification for intrusion into private property and economic freedom... can be found in people's desire for the government to do good... It's nice to think that the government can do good," Williams said. But "government has no resources of its very own... The only way for government to give someone a dollar is, [through] intimidation, threat, and coercion, take that dollar from someone else."
To illustrate his point, he asked the audience to imagine what would happen if an individual did privately the same thing the government does. If a person stole from another person in order to help a homeless person, we call that theft, even though it was done out of benevolence. But if the government does the same thing through social welfare, "there is no conceptual distinction between both acts," except that one is illegal theft and the other is legal theft.
What is legal is not a good guide for American society because what is legal is not always moral, Williams said. He used slavery as an example of a legal institution that was immoral.
"I believe in charity," Williams said. "I believe that reaching into one's own pockets to help your fellow man is praiseworthy and laudable, but reaching in someone else's pockets is wrong."
