Geoffrey MillerVerified account

This is _precisely_ equal to saying 'Every person in this country has a right to all the labor & resources of everybody else, to be expropriated through the coercive power of the state, & redistributed as the state sees fit'. But I guess Bernie's version sounds better.https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1168592173589094404 …

Lazy take. This is how the military gets funded. Should we disband the military because we all pay for it? Smh

Well, govt is the use of force. Members of a society forfeit their right to use force on each other, or their right to use force against other societies, to the government. The government uses force to preserve rights. Right to life, freedom. The govt can and must use force there

So it isn't inconsistent to say that we have a right to be protected from a foreign invader. That's a fundamental roll of government. But comfortable 4 year vacation at the beginning of one's life, and a paycheck for the final 20-40% of ones life ... Those aren't "rights."

Says who? The whole point is people are saying they are rights. Just like safe working environments, minimum wages, overtime laws.... We have decided collectively that lots of things are rights.

That's just it. Where did we all agree that minimum wage was a right? The government requires many things of us (don't drive to fast, don't pay your employees less than this much), but these aren't necessarily rights What is a right?