The problem here is that Sowell’s logic is flawed as viewed by the left because they want it all. Paychecks for everybody should come from the government with the paystubs showing no taxes. The govt cut is silently removed. To each according to what the govt gives him/her.
That is because libs lack what I call “assembly neurons”. They want to launch the space shuttle but they don’t have that “assembly building” where all the inglorious work is done, where the bolts are tightened, the systems checked, the tiles inspected. They go directly from the pile of parts to “launch” without regard to the tedium of having to think out the preliminaries.
That’s why you hear them saying “let’s do launch” all the time. Ba da bump.