Smoking Frog
2009-03-20 19:04:47
Marc Malone #81: You’re right about Middleman’s remark about privatization. It’s utterly asinine. But “exceptions” doesn’t adequately address this, because it suggests a contradiction, however weak. There is no contradiction between opposition to socialism or statism, and the idea that there are benefits which the government should provide to some individuals. Opposition to socialism says that the economy should be *largely* free of government control, and that it is immoral to commandeer a person’s labor or wealth *merely* because it would do someone else some good.
