{"id":29763,"date":"2019-07-31T22:03:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29763"},"modified":"2019-07-31T22:03:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:03:04","slug":"briefly-for-politicians-to-give-money-to-one-person-they-must-steal-it-from-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=29763","title":{"rendered":"Briefly: For politicians to give money to one person, they must steal it from another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Democrats-debate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29764\" src=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Democrats-debate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Democrats-debate.jpg 460w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Democrats-debate-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t watch televised political entertainment. I worked in politics far too long to have a stomach for that anymore. But I see photos of the Democrats\u2019 recent debates and can\u2019t help thinking they look like desperate contestants on a TV game show. Instead of being there to win money, though, they\u2019re competing to see who can promise to steal the most money from you \u2014 to give to someone else. Such people who preach about the virtues of government giving money to all sorts of people who they claim they want to help never seem to understand that <em>governments have no money of their own<\/em>. The only way to hand money to one person is to steal it from someone else who has earned it. Taking money from a person without his consent is <em>theft<\/em>, whether it\u2019s done by a common mugger or by a politician. Something which is immoral when done by one person doesn\u2019t become virtuous when done by politicians calling themselves a government. Theft is still theft. It\u2019s immoral. Modern Democrats and Republicans are united in their willingness to endorse this theft. Republicans just don\u2019t want <em>quite<\/em> as much of it. Both positions are evil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t watch televised political entertainment. I worked in politics far too long to have a stomach for that anymore. But I see photos of the Democrats\u2019 recent debates and can\u2019t help thinking they look like desperate contestants on a TV game show. 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