The Creator

From Don Boudreaux, responding to Paul Krugman:

All income is earned by individuals. It originates as their property and not that of any government or of some collective ‘us.’ Even if this money is deemed necessary to keep Uncle Sam solvent, remember that this government was created to protect individual rights that each of us receives from our “Creator” – that is, rights existing independently of any state. In contrast, according to Mr. Krugman’s mystical political dogma, all property (and, hence, each right) originates in government. Government is elevated to the status of Creator, while each individual is thereby reduced to the status of a serf living at the favor and pleasure of government. That belief, if pursued consistently, leads to the greatest tyranny.