Obama and The Virtue of Selfishness |
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| Daily Dose of Reason - Politics & Government | ||||
| Saturday, 01 November 2008 23:00 | ||||
 Obama says it's "selfish" of McCain-Palin supporters to cut taxes rather than
increase them. Obama believes that people who want to keep their own money are
selfish, and bad, while people who want to redistribute other people's money are
virtuous. But what about the self-interest of people who seek to hold political
office at taxpayer expense? Government officials have self-interest too.
Self-interest is part of life. It's not right to say that self-interest is all
bad, or all good. It depends on the context. People who seek to obtain wealth
through voluntary, non-coercive means are entitled to keep their money. If
someone wants to pay me a million -- or even a billion -- dollars for a product
or service, that's between myself and that person. It's not Obama's money. Obama
is happy to operate on the principle of self-interest when it comes to the
self-interest of politicians and bureaucrats -- including himself. What about
the rights of the rest of us? We're the ones expected to pay for his power trip.
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