Is There a "Right" to Health Care? Is Income Taxation Just?

Tom Woods discusses Senator Rand Paul's comments to the effect that a "right to health care" is tantamount to partial slavery, and explains why it is not an exaggeration to equate income taxation with forced labor.

http://www.TomWoods.com/books/rollback

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[TheZajac123]

Imagine health care is an egg. And Rand Paul is a key. And Obama is a wardrobe. What then?

[WhimsicalQuandary]

"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."

-Adam Smith

""No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."

-Adam Smith

[mistrysherlock]

@elynn63ky

How are you being forced to do anything? If you don't like paying tax you are perfectly free to become a hobo and live by panhandling and eating out of garbage cans.Who is stopping you? Is the overseer gonna come and catch you and force you back to your "involuntary servitude" of working in an office/being a rich college kid/ or whatever the fuck you do?

Slavery involves whips and chains and starvation rations and backbreaking labour and punishment beatings you stupid arseclown.

[mistrysherlock]

So,by the same logic,if you employ someone to make enchilladas for the equivalent of 18c a unit and you sell them for $2 and pocket the difference, you are enslaving them?

If not ,why not? It's closer to slavery than the scenario suggested in the video.

[MrGTR22]

@endlessstockades I have read what you said and hope you will seek knowledge with more of a mature attitude

[elynn63ky]

Everyone has a right to seek health care but that right does not mean others are obligated to provide health care services. If government forces others to provide it, how exactly is that not involuntary servitude? Does my right to bear arms mean society owes me a rifle or a handgun? Of course not. Only an idiot would think so. The same goes for any other right, whether it is freedom of press or religion etc....

[nbonasoro]

@endlessstockades i have read your comments and concluded that you are an ill informed person who i hope will wake up to your deprived freedoms. you cant understand something by watching one video you must understand the entire philosophy, and in this situation that is liberty and austrian economics (free market economics)

[ikarosrising1]

@itachi705 I really, really, hope you understand that there is a difference between socialism and communism? Socialism is a blanket term for a plethora of ideologies. Some of them are extremely close to communism, but by no means all of them. If you do know this, and I have misinterpreted your comment, I apologize. If you don't... read some books, bitch?

[endlessstockades]

tom,

i have watched your video.

and i have concluded that you are gigantic fucking asshole. fuck off.

thank you.

[DerTypDa]

The thought experiment with the island is flawed to begin with and falls flat on its face. It assumes the resources neccessary to sustain life are readily available whereas caddilacs are arbitrarily not. Assume that there is only enough food to sustain for one person on that island, suddenly logically speaking one of the island's inhabitants cannot exercise his right to live without infringing on the other's, making it no longer a natural right. This a priori definition is just false.