>>Says who? Says the U.S. constitution.
>>The problem is that the expansion of the welfare state has artificially blurred the lines between rights and entitlement programs.
>>Entitlements can only happen through specific government actions (i.e. by force) that require interference with others. Entitlements ultimately infringe on rights.
Oh puh-leez. Unless you perceive the red traffic signal as an infringement on your rights- in numerous small and large ways we all have to accept society's need to set rules for the good of all. Yes, we relinquish some potential freedoms in the interest of a safe ordered community where we can do business and enjoy the fruits of our labors. If society decides that roading or schools or police or healthcare is a public good- then it can do so and it's sophist to try to play the "infringement" card only on society's decisions that you happen to dislike.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1