Taxation or Totalitarianism

"First came the Great Society, then the New Deal, and now comes President Obama's special brand of interventionalist tactics with redistributive aims. When it suits him, the president wants the power to take from some and give to others. But how do you keep the public from correctly identifying this as stealing? You do as his predecessors did: You call it charity.

Today, the idea that it is wrong for the government to take in taxes and spend in "charity" would be considered ludicrous.

There have been many arguments under which government has expanded its powers:

..... that government serves as a charitable organization -- first, because this argument can be leveraged for ever more spending,

..... The most recent offshoot is the idea that certain businesses are too big to fail

This ever-expanding role of government as a charitable giver obscures the fundamental truth that in order to give, government [Got that? GOVERNMENT must take, not you or I voluntarily being charitable] must first take. But with a "right" to health care, it is more perilous than that. Giving someone a "right" to a service provided by another indentures the other. The freedom to purchase is transmuted into an obligation to provide. " [American Thinker]