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The Law and Charity
You say: "There are persons
who have no money," and you turn to the law. But the law is
not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal
veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the
society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of
one citizen or one class unless other citizens and other classes
have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the
treasury the amount that he has put in it, it is true that the
law then plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the
persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of
income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only as it
takes from some persons and gives to other persons. When the law
does this, it is an instrument of plunder.
With this in mind, examine the
protective tariffs, subsidies, guaranteed profits, guaranteed
jobs, relief and welfare schemes, public education, progressive
taxation, free credit, and public works. You will find that they
are always based on legal plunder, organized injustice.
Clark Simmons, Webmaster
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