Now our only rights, the American viewpoint continues, are the rights to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all.
Why only these? Observe that all legitimate rights have one thing in common: they are rights to action, not to rewards from other people. The American rights impose no obligations on other people, merely the negative obligation to leave you alone. The system guarantees you the chance to work for what you want—not to be given it without effort by somebody else.
In other words: you have the right to act, and to keep the results of your actions, the products you make, to keep them or to trade them with others, if you wish.
You don't abolish charity by calling it something else.
To call it a Right when the recipient did not earn it is merely to compound the evil. It is charity still—though now extorted by criminal tactics of force, while hiding under a dishonest name.
clipped from: www.afcm.org