Boris Johnson's £1.8bn NHS pledge dismissed as inadequate by Labour
The State has to justify it's existence. Like any protection racket it has to at least appear to offer some form of 'protection'. We're all afraid of falling ill and suffering. Where there is fear you find the State. Ready, willing and able to deliver the highest levels of care and comfort. Well, that's the theory. What actually happens is that your money is coerced from you under threat of caging and given back to you, maybe, in the form of 'services' that the State, which knows what's best for you, has decided upon for you. Isn't that reassuring?
As with everything else, like security for example, the absence of the State does not mean an absence of options for attempting to manage life's (sometimes very difficult) problems. The question is do you choose those options to suit the realities of your life or do you turn over the responsibility to people who believe that if you don't see things their way, you will need a bit of 'persuading'? Medication can exist in a free market, insurance can exist in a free market, charity can exist in a free market. All these things are possible without being overseen by an extortion racket. Will it all amount to something perfect? No. Does removing officially sanctioned extortion and self serving State and oligarch narratives help us to have and make better choices? I believe it does. You, of course, may disagree with me.
What's interesting in today's title headline is that it alludes to a 'choice' (otherwise known as a false dichotomy) between a new Statist 'leader' who has declared he'll generously spend vast sums of other people's money on a project that's been failing for decades and a group of rampant Statists who will do the same only at 3 times the magnitude. This kind of media coverage helps to ensure that it occurs to few that rattling around inside this false dichotomy is simply another one of many distractions which enable the continued existence of the State's iron grasp over people's lives, as any other approach is quickly dismissed as anarchy (misconstrued as chaos) ... and everyone knows that can't be right ...