Sometimes it is quite astounding to see theory and reality come together. Like the other day when Bill Maher talked again about redistributing income and it slipped out that his policies would actually use force as a matter of course.
At first most people might be tempted to agree with him. But at a second glance, his statistics are flawed and his conclusion is shockingly aggressive:
You have to beat it [the rich people] with a stick.
Reminds me of a great Friedman quotation:
There has been one underlying basic fallacy in this whole set of social security and welfare measures. And that is the fallacy – this is at the bottom – that it is feasible or possible to do good with other people’s money. Now, you see that view has two flaws: If I am going to do good with other people’s money, I first have to take it away from them. That means that the welfare state philosophy of doing good with other people’s money, at its very bottom, is a philosophy of violence and coercion. It is against freedom because I have to use force to get the money. In the second place, very few people spend other people’s money as carefully as their own.
Swiss Economist 