That (no offence) is an utterly stupid idea. If government guarantees "basic human needs" by which you mean, if you are like most socialists, anarcho-Marxists, and other such people, "fair wages" "full employment" "free healthcare" "welfare" "universal education" than you must first consider how you'd pay for all that. That's right, YOU WOULD TAKE PEOPLE'S MONEY (that's what taxes are.) The definition of "stealing" is and I do quote the Oxford Dictionary of British English : "the action or offence of taking another person's property." That's what taxes are. So in order to guarantee the long list of so-called "human rights," (a secular ideology completely different from the Founder's conception of rights) it must, of necessity, deny the natural property rights of other persons in so doing. Using tax revenues to regulate business and labor management, set wage and price standards, and provide state-operated healthcare does not increase liberty or human need, it destroys it.
I am not denying that high wages, full employment, affordable healthcare, and education are not desirable things – like most libertarian conservatives I would love people to have all those things – what I am here contesting is that the government should be allowed to disregard people's inalienable natural rights in the pursuit of giving people those things. Even if such rights did exist (they don't) the right to property, one of the three of the "triumvirate of fundamental rights" God has endowed all human beings with, would outweigh them by far. I'll leave off with a quote from one of the most brilliant men who ever lives, my hero, Thomas Jefferson:
"A government that is powerful enough to give you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have."
Human nature being what it is, what else can we expect?
–TruthHurts101
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