On justifying a minimum welfare state
On justifying a minimum welfare state
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论最低福利国家的合理性
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1993
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H. Kliemt
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作者：
H. Kliemt
由于无政府状态是不可行的，有限政府是现实的自由主义者所能希望的最好的政府。但是，有限政府本身总是受到一种超越其限度的内在倾向的威胁。在现代西方社会，管制和再分配的福利国家是对自由宪法的主要威胁。然而，在公民中重新分配个人收入的“最低福利国家”可能符合保护性国家所体现的个人自由和法治原则。由于任何国家，包括最低限度的国家，必然包含监管和再分配，因此是一种福利国家，非无政府主义的自由主义者应该反对福利国家的特权，而不是反对再分配和监管本身。他甚至有充分的理由超越最低限度的国家，建立一个“最低限度的福利国家”，如果这有助于在法治下确保自由的话。
Since anarchy is not viable, limited government is the best that the realistic libertarian can hope for. But limited government will itself always be threatened by an inherent tendency to transgress its limits. In modern western societies the regulatory and redistributive welfare state is the major threat to a constitution of liberty. However, a “minimum welfare state” which redistributes personal income among its citizens may comply with the same principles of individual liberty and the rule of law that are embodied in the protective state. Since any state, including the minimal state, necessarily incorporates regulation and redistribution and thus is a welfare state of sorts the non-anarchist liberal should turn against welfare state privileges rather than against redistribution and regulation per se. He may even have good reason to go beyond the minimal state to found a “minimum welfare state” if this is instrumental in securing liberty under the rule of law.