Government Charity

If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must be happy. (Thomas Jefferson)

Redistribution of Wealth

A Jeffersonian perspective on wealth redistribution.

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. (Thomas Jefferson)