ROLE OF GOVERNMENT

State Welfare and Social Security

Social security we know from developed countries' experiences faces irresistible demographic and fiscal pressures that threaten the economy of the country. Social Welfare taxes directly interferes the individual liberty. State sponsored welfare approaches have serious flaws and tend to fail.

We encourage people to invest privately through private accounts. The current development agencies lobbying in favor of creation of social safety nets should be discouraged. Investment on welfare is a matter of private decision not the mandatory public choice which curtails individual liberty. The private investment:

Provides workers with higher benefits than Social Security would otherwise would be able to pay; Create a system that treats old age, women, minorities, and young people more fairly;
Allow low-income workers to accumulate real, inheritable wealth for the first time in their lives; and Give workers ownership of and control over their retirement funds.

The government is the backbone of welfare reform. What would happen to the poor if welfare were eliminated? First, without the incentives of the welfare state, fewer people would be poor.

Role of Government

Individual rights are often codified into law so that they may be protected by impartial third parties such as the government. Governments that respect individual rights often provide for systemic controls that protect individual rights. These systems give rise to such civil rights as are necessary for the government to administer justice. With respect to individual rights the role of the government is as a third party protecting, identifying and enforcing the rights of the individual while attempting to assure just remedies for transgressions.

Role of Government in a society are:

• Reduce taxes to a minimum and reduce the size of government to a minimum.
• Remove restrictions on personal and economic freedom
• Remove government interference from as many areas of life as possible.
• Maintain what we see as the legitimate functions of government - the administration of justice and national defense - and would ensure that these functions worked effectively in protecting rights and freedoms.

Government should strive for in a win-win voluntary society where people cooperate through trade and charity. The moral issue here is that it is not right to take forcefully from one person in order to provide for another's needs. Welfare for those in need should be provided through voluntary means. Forcing others to "give" is not just or generous. Government should not be deciding who needs welfare, because welfare is damaging to some people because it encourages dependency, lack of initiative (kills competition), and poor planning. A free economy will produce more wealth for everyone. Taxation is robbing people of their wealth and the ability to invest that wealth in new business, which would benefit the poor.

Discrimination/Positive Discrimination

Individuals are entitled to enjoy the benefits of respective inborn rights. No individual rights should be denied or abridged by the laws or actions, because of race religion, sex, age, or any other characteristic or because of personal non-criminal activity.

Positive discrimination does not offer even the practical benefits claimed by its supporters. Because preferences do not help minorities, policymakers and administrators of all political persuasions should oppose their use. Positive Discrimination defenders frequently and correctly tout the importance of preference to the goal of improving life prospects. But preferences have not increased access. In development politics words it does not add on the empowerment. Nor do preferences increase the economic opportunities. It produces no concrete benefits to minority groups, but it does produce several significant harms. It is skills, not credentials, can narrow socioeconomic gaps. Policymakers should end the harmful practice of caste/ ethnicity and sex preferences.