The Theology of the Welfare State

Gary North explains the theology of the welfare state and what its supporters don't understand:

They do not see anything wrong with the morality of theft by ballot box. They believe in the welfare state's re-written version of the eighth commandment: Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

They also do not perceive that the welfare state operates in terms of a theology, namely, that control over the delivery of healing, especially in old age, is evidence of being the primary voice of authority for the god of society. A state that does not both finance and control society's healers cannot plausibly present itself to the masses as possessing this monopolistic voice of authority.