Saturday, July 16, 2011

Cartoon of the Day: Evolution of the Welfare State

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The caricature above shows how communal unity, what in the Philippines has been known as the Bayanihan Spirit, transforms into a culture of entitlement.

I’d like to add an important missing element in the sketch: the use of the threat of violence (the gun via taxation) in forcing people to pull the cart.

Thanks to Cato’s Dan Mitchell

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