Emphasis mine:
This is why socialism is evil. It employs evil means, confiscation and intimidation, to accomplish what are often seen as noble goals — namely, helping one’s fellow man. Helping one’s fellow man in need by reaching into one’s own pockets to do so is laudable and praiseworthy. Helping one’s fellow man through coercion and reaching into another’s pockets is evil and worthy of condemnation. Tragically, most teachings, from the church on down, support government use of one person to serve the purposes of another; the advocates cringe from calling it such and prefer to call it charity or duty.
-Prof. Walter Williams (American Contempt for Liberty)
And we have railed against such government activities for years in that Statists and Socialists (but I repeat myself) believe that shucking off personal responsibility to help those around them and outsource it to Government is “normal” – it isn’t. It’s an abdication.
(H/T: Cafe Hayek)
