[Little Ray]

“Positive rights” are a scheme to enslave the people.
Food, shelter, medical care, education, etc., must alll be paid for. If there is a “right” to these things, then the “people” have a “right” to the labor of others. Naturally the State will be enforcing this right.

That is involuntary servitude, slavery, in any language.

The role of the government it remove obstacles that prevent citizens from taking care of their own affairs, not to run those affairs for them.

[ThunderSleeps]

Well said, and the crux of what is fundamentally wrong and irreparable in the marxist/socialist/fascist scheme.

[Cheburashka]

“Positive rights” are a scheme to enslave the people.
Food, shelter, medical care, education, etc., must alll be paid for. If there is a “right” to these things, then the “people” have a “right” to the labor of others. Naturally the State will be enforcing this right.

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Correct you are, but don't overlook the effect of multitudes of rights guaranteed in most constitutions. People may have tens or hundreds of rights enumerated, but there are always weasel words in the texts, and when X's right #47 conflicts with Y's right #139 some government bureaucrat gets to exercise his power by deciding how much of his right X gets, if any, and how much Y gets of his right. Expect the result to curtail both people's rights, unless one of them wins by paying the appropriate bribe.