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RE: Steemians: What's your economic philosophy?

in #dtube6 years ago

"free decent health care" is not a right. Free decent food is not a right. Free decent housing is not a right. These things don't exist freely in nature. They are highly prized desires of all mankind but they require the sweat of someone to make them available. Taking/taxing away the valuable sweat equity of one person and giving it to another to pay for these so called "rights" is an immoral act leading to all sorts of inequities and inefficiencies. It's human nature. "That which we acquire too easily is not highly esteemed." Wasteful, inefficient consequences always result from such things. Bundling of health care into a giant government bureaucracy (think Veterans Administration) will inevitably and necessarily lead to poor quality of service and rising costs due to inefficient delivery. It's human nature.

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These things don't exist freely in nature.

Neither do rights.