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Ep. 1399 Why the Welfare State Is Morally Wrong: A New Approach

05.07.2019 - By Tom WoodsPlay

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Dan Moller, a philosophy professor at the University of Maryland, has just produced an intriguing, and to my mind compelling, new kind of argument against the welfare state. He takes on this issue in particular because it is one of the positions libertarians hold for which they are most demonized. His argument compels us to consider the question of how much we may legitimately shift our own burdens onto others, particularly without their consent.

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