Of course it would be great, and it would also be nice if we could all retire at age 50 and live to be 100, but that is not possible. Someone has to work to pay for these miners’ retirement benefits, so in effect, they become slaves. That is what it means to be forced to labor for the benefit of another. People simply stop producing when what they produce is confiscated, no matter how “good” the reason is for taking it.
I’m hoping all the believers in the free lunch move to Bolivia now.
“The level of production needed to sustain a welfare state cannot be sustained by a welfare state.” ~ Richard W. Fulmer
““The level of production needed to sustain a welfare state cannot be sustained by a welfare state.””
The main reason why a welfare state works in countries like Sweden (and this is the part liberals never understand) is that we’ve been defending Europe since WWII, and so they don’t have to spend much of anything on their militaries. Either that or the country has some valuable natural resource like oil or gas that pays for the welfare state.