Almost daring to call it theft


Why social justice isn't just
Marcek Votlucka calls it right, he just doesn't name it.

Social Security is based on the principle of wealth redistribution, in that the funds we are forced to pay into it are re-allocated toward recipients in the here and now.  They don’t go toward some carefully managed retirement fund that would appreciate in value and deliver large dividends to you in the future.  Even if they did, you are more than capable of handling that for your own self, no?  Rather, that portion of your income (which is deducted from your paycheck before you even see it) is basically given to someone else who didn’t do a thing to earn it -- and who therefore has no legitimate claim to it.  It’s the same process with Medicare or any other such program.  

Let’s put it another way.  If your neighbor somehow arranged for funds to be sneaked into her bank account from yours because she felt she had a right to them, you’d be justifiably pissed off.  But what about instead of a neighbor, this is done by a pack of arrogant, unaccountable thugs calling themselves a government?  Your needs matter none; they present complexities and questions that might be too uncomfortable.  

Thus, Social Security advocates focus only on the end goal (supposedly the recipient’s welfare), almost never on the means by which the goal is achieved (extortion).  Worse yet, they go on to justify those unjust means in the name of what they call “social justice.”  What the hell does that even mean?  They know that people naturally have empathy for others, so isn’t this just a cheap and easy technique for clouding the issue and evading ethical accountability?  

“Oh, but these programs help others in need!” they might squeal in indignation.  Yes, when you have billions of dollars re-distributed to others, some people will be helped.  Yet all the welfare programs in the world haven’t stopped the increasing cost of health care.  They haven’t made saving for retirement any easier.  They haven’t eliminated racial disparities in income and job security.  Furthermore, inflation-adjusted incomes have stagnated since the late 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson’s  “Great Society” programs tried to tackle the problems of poverty that we face today.  Social Security certainly hasn’t alleviated the job insecurity so many people face in this shaky economy.  

The entire premise of these programs is that you won't make the right choice with your money.

If it were anyone EXCEPT government doing this, you would fight it with everything you have.

But people have been conditioned to accept that the government knows better than they do.

This must stop if we are to reclaim our liberty.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Mon - October 16, 2006 at 04:36 AM  Tag


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