Go right ahead and point out just where I said that. You really should try to keep things more straight in your head.
I inferred it from your apparent belief that charity could take up the slack if government was to withdraw. If I inferred wrongly then I take it back. Maybe you could clarify your opinion on the issue of charity as a substitute for welfare.
Really now? Are you sure about that?
Yes, I am sure. At a time when the state provided little to no assistance to the poor, poverty was rampant. When the welfare state was introduced, this poverty declined. When in the 80’s Neoliberalism began it’s gradual assault on the welfare state, poverty began to increase again.
So you’re saying the above doesn’t prove anything? Really?
It’s only a proof given certain provisos such as the predicates being true. Of course, you then need to prove the predicates, which brings in the need to prove yet more auxiliary assumptions. As such, all individual claims to truth are interlinked and mutually contingent. Truth values are therefore spread over theories as a whole, not concentrated in individual statements.
See the Duhem-Quine thesis for a better explanation of what I am getting at.