Beg to differ. “Our side” believes it is up to an individual to decide if they are going to be productive or not!
Real economic freedom means that people who make bad choices, or who may have disabilities, or may have bad luck, might possibly end up starving in an alley. Women and children too. Not their fault, sure – but if you own responsibility for your own situation, and if things don’t go your way (for any reason) then you are on your own.
Now, churches and benevolent societies have done great things in the past, and could do great things in the future. But if all the economic parasites in this country of 300 million people had to suddenly depend on either themselves or on the kindness of strangers, then there would be a lot of suffering.
I see two choices:
1) Put a gun to some folks’ heads, forcibly extract their money, and redistribute that wealth.
2) Allow children to starve in the street.
I’m open to other alternatives. But outside of science fiction novels, I really don’t see anyone giving serious thought to other solutions.