Today February 2 2015 is 110th Birth Anniversary of Ayn Rand
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Darryl Cunningham, New Statesman, October 31 2014:
“…In Rand’s philosophy an individual’s needs matter more
than the needs of the majority, taxation is theft, and the welfare system
should be allowed to wither away (along, presumably, with the poor).
So a world of low taxes, low business regulation, welfare
state rollback, and government reduced only to matters of policing and the
military, while all else is farmed out to giant corporations, is a world Rand
would much approve of. If this picture looks familiar, it’s because it’s the
world that those on the political right have been moving us towards for the
last thirty years.
All of the above shows us why Ayn Rand is still relevant.
Hers is the spirit of the age: the age of selfishness. An age of greed,
financial crime, and indifference to the poor, sick, and disabled. Where most
work harder for less and a tiny percentage of people at the top of society own
the majority of all wealth.”
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