A few thoughts from the founders on the welfare state The utopian schemes of leveling[redistribution of wealth] and a community of goods[central ownership of all the means of production and distribution] are as visionary and impracticable as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic and in our government, unconstitutional. - Samuel Adams To relieve the misfortunes of our fellow creatures is concurring with the Deity; it is godlike; but if we provide encouragement for laziness, and supports for folly, may we not be found fighting against the order of God and Nature, which perhaps has appointed want and misery as the proper punishments for, and cautions against, as well as necessary consequences of, idleness and extravagance? Whenever we attempt to amend the scheme of Providence, and to interfere with the government of the world, we had need be very circumspect, lest we do more harm than good. -Benjamin Franklin
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 00:10:33 +0000
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