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Originally Posted by ricechex
u lost me there. you're agreeing that why wal-mart shouldn't have state health care. what's that have to do with a welfare state?
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because state-funded health care is inherently part of the welfare state. if the government helps wal-mart pay its healthcare benefits to its workers, it can only do so by getting the money from taxpayers -- i.e., by holding a gun to their heads.
the only legitimate functions of a government are to protect its citizens' rights from foreign invaders and domestic criminals and to arbitrate disputes through a judiciary. to get the government in the business of protecting its citizens from anything else (unemployment, disease, poverty, financial insecurity after retirement, etc.) is to establish a welfare state; that's why the private sector exists.