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Kamala Harris Goes Full Commie on Healthcare
Largely for demographic reasons, freshman California Senator Kamala Harris is considered a rising star in the Democrat Party. This does not bode well for the future, considering her conception of rights.
Here's what I believe: health care is a right, not a privilege. RT if you agree.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 18, 2017
Although this view is hardly uncommon among Democrats these days, its implications are alarming.
Rights as understand by the Founding Fathers were negative rights; you have a right not to be impeded, molested, looted, or assaulted as you pursue your own happiness. Progressives believe in the opposite: positive rights. From this point of view, you don’t have a right to pursue happiness; you have a right to demand that someone else provide you with happiness.
Healthcare consists of goods and services. Goods and services don’t fall from the sky; they require labor to provide. The right to other people’s labor is the right of a slave master.
If you have a fundamental right to healthcare, then you have a right to anything that can be regarded as healthcare, regardless of your ability or willingness to pay for it. Want a plastic surgeon to give you a nose job? It is your right to force someone else to provide it.
Why should this stop at healthcare? Housing is more immediately necessary, and food more still. If you have a right to healthcare, it follows you have a right to walk into an apartment complex and demand a free unit. You have a right to fill your cart at the grocery store and wheel it out without paying.
There can be no liberty where people have a right to demand the products of other people’s labor. As every attempt to impose communism has demonstrated, there can only be poverty, repression, and slavery.
Fortunately, a few people still get this. The Blaze collected responses to Harris’ tyrannical tweet. A few examples:
@KamalaHarris Any constitutional basis for your belief about the right of health care?
— Arqahn (@Arqahn) March 18, 2017
@KamalaHarris @MDaware Please explain who should pay for this right. Or must I provide it for free?
— Pam Bensen, MD (@icd10MD) March 19, 2017
@KamalaHarris @christineyhsd I believe housing is a right, & large bank accounts. How can I get ppl to support my belief? Where's it end?
— Brent Monday (@Global_Occupant) March 18, 2017
On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.
Source: http://moonbattery.com/?p=82317
