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    Welfare funded by taxation compels the wealthy to contrib... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Egalitarian arrangements such as welfare funded by taxation are incompatible with the self-ownership of the wealthy.

    Welfare funded by taxation compels the wealthy to contribute their earnings to others.

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    Still even if we concede that property is the product of social rules, and that normative thinking about the former must be preceded by normative thinking about the latter, there might be facts about the human condition or our agency as embodied beings that provide philosophical premises for an argument that property relations should be established in one way rather than another. Clearly, there is at least one material object with which a person does seem to have an intimate pre-legal relation t

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