For the life of me, I cannot understand why some libertarians support Social Security. Why do they call for fixing and reforming it instead of abolishing it?
What gives with that? Don’t libertarians oppose socialism?
Libertarians certainly are not hesitating to criticize the Democrat Party’s new congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for being a “democratic socialist.” The same goes for her political mentor U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, who has long labeled himself a socialist.
Indeed, libertarians have recently been pointing out and criticizing the destructive consequences of socialism in countries like Venezuela and Nicaragua, not to mention Cuba and North Korea.
Why then defend Social Security and come up with ways to fix or reform it? Isn’t holding contradictory positions what the term “cognitive dissonance” is all about?
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Libertarians understand that Social Security is a socialist program. It uses the force of the state to take money from one person to whom it belongs and transfer it to a person to whom it does not belong. That’s classic socialism. It’s a perfect embodiment of the Marxian principle, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
Libertarians also know that the idea of Social Security originated among socialists in Germany around the turn of the 20th century. It was never part of America’s founding political-economic system. It was adopted in the 1930s as part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s economic revolution, which transformed the federal government into a paternalistic welfare state.
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