>"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point" We've been "boostrapping" for g

>"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point" We've been "boostrapping" for generations and decades. We are constantly sold the idea that if we "give just a little more" money to government, then all problems will be solved. And here we are countless periods later, lots of problems solved, and whole lot of new ones created (marketed) to take their place. I know you feel good, and you enjoy "the look" on peoples faces when you tell them that you think stealing is "OK" because someday in the future "we can provide for everyone's basic needs". Yeah, right. How about I tell you how much I enjoy the look on statists' faces when I question them as to why we need guns and police to enforce tax-compliance if we live in a wonderfully free (democratic?) society where everyone wants to help the poor/needy/helpless. Or countless other questions that make them admit the fundamental immorality of the state, and how it does not fit within their ideas about what they think is actually "right" and "wrong". >"You don't have to take anything from anyone to provide for everyone's basic needs once we've bootstrapped to a certain point" This can be done today, right now. With the the level of spending that most all governments spend. They can feed, clothe, shelter and medically care for every single human being on this planet, or that lives within their respective borders. Every single one. From poor starving orphans in the middle of abandoned nowhere, to cushy apartment-dwellers in big-cities. Ask yourself why it has not happened yet? Either you are not in the majority you declare to be in and the majority does not buy your ideas. Or the majority does agree with you, and has not been able to accomplish it.