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minus-squarezokr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down3·6 months ago Ayn Rand depended on the government welfare programs before she died. She didn’t even believe her own bullshit. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/ It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits, and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement. If she paid into Social Security and Medicare and paid taxes then what is the issue? The paragraph above states that she did not believe her actions to be hypocrisy because she had paid taxes.
minus-squareYarHarSuperstar@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·6 months agoWhat is your deal? Why are you all over this thread defending Ayn Rand?
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/
It is morally defensible for those who decry publicly-funded scholarships, Social Security benefits,
and unemployment insurance to turn around and accept them, Rand argued, because the government
had taken money from them by force (via taxes). There’s only one catch: the recipient must regard the
receipt of said benefits as restitution, not a social entitlement.
If she paid into Social Security and Medicare and paid taxes then what is the issue? The paragraph above states
that she did not believe her actions to be hypocrisy because she had paid taxes.
What is your deal? Why are you all over this thread defending Ayn Rand?