Sunday, June 05, 2011

Rand Paul on Slavery. Wrong Analogy. Right Problem.

Rand Paul on Slavery. Wrong Analogy. Right Problem.:

"The son of libertarian standard bearer Ron Paul recently generated headlines again for comparing free health care to slavery. As several commentators observed, no one can “conscript” doctors to practice medicine. He freely quit the profession. However, this isn’t the primary concern, heinous as doctors fleeing regulatory impositions portends for the future quality of medicine.

The weightier issue isn’t confined to health care workers. It affects everyone: a serf-like dependence on the state, where greater portions of our labor and property are appropriated by the collective at the price of diminished personal freedom."

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