(((((((((( The Trommetter Times Update: A Libertarian Question ))))))))))
April 13, 2004
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"How can there possibly be liberty and justice for all, when,
in the name of justice, people claim rights to...
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<p><a href="http://www.trommetter.org/log/archives/cat_money.php";><img
border="0" align="right" width="76"
src="http://www.trommetter.org/log/archives/topicmoney.gif"; alt="Topic:
Money " height="70"></a>"<cite><span style="font-weight: bold;">How can
there
possibly be liberty and justice for all, when, in the name of justice,
people claim rights to income, food, housing, education, health care,
transportation, ad infinitum?</span> We can't. Positive rights to
receive such
things, absent an obligation to earn them, must violate others'
liberty, by taking some of their income without their consent. They are
really just wishes, convertible into benefits for some only by
employing the government to violate others' rights not to have what is
theirs taken.</cite>"</p>
<p align="right">Pepperdine Professor Gary Galles<br>
Hat tip to <a href="http://federalist.com/pub/04-15_Brief.htm";
ttile="The Federalist: No. 04-15 Monday Brief" class="offsite">The
Federalist</a></p>
<p>Yes, indeed. How can we talk about liberty and rights when people
refuse to earn their own keep.</p>
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