Source: Bet On It
by Bryan Caplan
“‘The American welfare states focuses almost exclusively on helping relatively poor Americans, not absolutely poor foreigners.’ I have long enjoyed loudly pointing out this indisputable fact, but why? At minimum, this fact exposes the moral blindness of actually-existing leftist philosophy: ‘Oh thou hypocrites, if you really cared about the wretched of the Earth, you would want to take the money you are squandering on the 90th-percentile of the world income distribution, and give it to those at its 1st-percentile.’ … Am I being unfair to the vast majority of leftists? Hardly. As you are well aware, most of them don’t even believe that desperate foreigners should be free to solve their own poverty problem by moving to America to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms.” (12/02/24)
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