Ever consider that there are other ways to achieve the same end of everyone having their basic needs met? Charitable giving in the United States is much higher than most of the world last time I checked, and that’s partly due to the fact that we’re less socialist, although headed your way day by day.

Let’s say the government and taxes disappeared everywhere overnight. Do you really think former taxpayers who were net contributors and who now had a surplus of savings wouldn’t feel any obligation to those around them to have fallen on hard times? Would there even be hard times with this unleashed capital and economic freedom? Let the difference of charitable giving between our countries be your guide.