Why libertarians are still against welfare considering that we live under a command economy?
Libertarians will say that if you're poor it's your own fault, but also that the government interfering with the economy has reached unprecedented levels in history.
Now some of you may feel they don't live under a command economy because their gardener is an illegal who is not paying taxes or because of some inspiring story from Tom Woods Web Marketing seminars, but the reality is that most of the economy is under the government's thumb.
Companies have huge contracts with government, smaller companies serve companies with huge contracts with government and everyone gets freshly printed loaned money from "commercial" banks based on what end up being government parameters.
We live under a command economy and there is no free market, money earned are the result of working for the government. For most people, especially the rich being that they're created by government, taxes aren't real but a circular transaction. Yeah, they don't feel good but you got the money from the government anyway.
Mises said
>“A stock market is crucial to the existence of capitalism and private property. For it means that there is a functioning market in the exchange of private titles to the means of production. There can be no genuine private ownership of capital without a stock market: there can be no true socialism if such a market is allowed to exist.”
And no libertarian today will argue that the stock market we currently have is a real stock market. It's a fraud propped up by government and central banking.
Because the government rules the economy, people that don't earn enough to sustain themselves are in this condition because they've been excluded from the economy by the government.
Since they've been excluded, they deserve to get at least money to not die and enjoy life, don't you think?
And the most insane thing is that libertarians, who should oppose government, are in favor of all this! They are in favor of this absurd situation. Not only the government is depriving everyone of freedom, but doesn't even give all their prisoners enough to sustain themselves. Only those that obey the government the most, those that follow and realize the government's plans get money. The other should be left to die, according to libertarians
I mean sure, not even in North Korea the government controls all the economy. And the West isn't North Korea, yet. At the same time, how can we not ask the government to help the poor when the government controls most of the economy now? Can we really expect every single poor person to jump around the unlimited hoops and abuse that government puts in front of them?
It's just cruel. A useless cruel rhetoric that not only contradicts libertarianism, but kinda proves the socialists point that libertarians just hate poor people.
Very sad.