Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger
“Before she died last month, longtime Los Angeles resident Wallis Annenberg gave away around $2 billion of her fortune. … While welfare statists undoubtedly like many of the projects she funded, they hate the fact that they were funded through the benevolence of a rich person. You see, the rationale for the welfare state is that people need to be forced to be good, caring, and compassionate. If people were free to decide for themselves what to do with their own money, most of them would turn their backs on their neighbors, the welfare-state argument goes. Therefore, the federal government must step in, seize people’s money through income taxation, and then distribute it to the poor and others.” (08/05/25)
https://www.fff.org/2025/08/05/why-welfare-statists-hate-people-like-wallis-annenberg/