All collectivist and redistributive systems try to do something that can’t be done: change basic human nature. The idea that you will work to support others flies in the face of the reason most people work, which is to acquire food and shelter and as many luxuries as they can amass beyond that. As Adam Smith wrote in “Wealth of Nations:” “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages.” http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN1.html#B.I, Ch.2, Of the Principle which gives Occasion to the Division of Labour, benevolence (From paragragh 1.2.2) This is human nature. I want something you have, so I will trade you for it with what I have. To be a beggar and live on the kindness of others is no way to live. Similarly, to expect government to take from others and give to you is an unsustainable plan. Man is a lazy animal, and will do as little as possible to get what he really wants.
