Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress

by | Sep 18, 2024

Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress

by | Sep 18, 2024

Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America’s border.

As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary differences, such as where the person happened to be born.

Simultaneously, we should regularly delegitimize and shame the concept of welfare, since it discourages mutually beneficial trade, and allows the state to coercively benefit some people at the expense of others.

 

Keith Knight

Keith Knight

Keith Knight is Managing Editor at the Libertarian Institute, host of the Don't Tread on Anyone podcast and editor of The Voluntaryist Handbook: A Collection of Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes.

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