Government Theft

 

Spending is theft. When the welfare state spends on welfare statist programs, it’s engaging in theft. The government has no right to expend citizenry money on food, housing, health, education, transportation, utilities, roads, parks, infrastructure, charity, and so on. This constitutes fascism, socialism, and tyranny. It’s also theft.

Government exists to protect individual rights. It exists to ensure justice and liberty for all. It’s sole purpose is to defend people and property. That’s it.

So when the state spends public funds on other activities, it’s engaging in theft.

The government may only properly spend money on the police, military, courts, prisons, and administrative bureaucracy. If it spends outside of that, it’s robbing the people.

A welfare state isn’t a moral state or a free state. It’s a criminal and tyrannical state.

By its nature, a welfare state steals from the public. It violates the Natural Law prohibition against theft. A welfare state robs the nation in order to fund its illegitimate and authoritarian activities. Welfare statist spending is theft.

By their nature, the funds of a moral and free government are acquired thru voluntary and contractual fees from the citizenry. These funds are used to pay for the equipment and salaries of the police, military, court, prison, and administrative workers. Such payments in a libertarian and capitalist society are not theft.

A just and free state may not steal from the voluntary, contractual, government fees in order to fund various welfare statist endeavors such as providing naturally low-quality, high-cost food, housing, health care, education, transportation, utilities, roads, parks, infrastructure, charity, etc. to its citizens. Such government activities involve robbery, criminality, and tyranny. Such spending is theft.