right now everyone's benefits are indexed to wages instead of prices--leaving it that way for poor folks minimizes their dependence on other welfare in their old age, which is unneeded by rich folks
in a utopian dreamland, successes and failures would get to eat what they kill and starve if they fail . . . simply melting away, instead of committing crimes and littering the sidewalk with their corpses
of course, i'd like to believe that, if they got the government off our backs, we'd use our extra wealth to care for others voluntarily . . . i'd really like to, but i wised up and quit the libertarian party in my 20s
in a utopian dreamland,
In a utopian dreamland people would take what they need and become independent. The fact is any government welfare is abused and only creates more waste. People need to be independent. Before government welfare people made it in this country just FINE and were better off!
You support the Welfare State?
Not to mention the US has the most private Charity than any other country!