ROFL! The ghost of Ayn Rand despises Paul Ryan!
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ROFL! The ghost of Ayn Rand despises Paul Ryan!
While Tom Tomorrow has pretty well nailed how Ayn Rand would react to Paul Ryan, I've got to quibble over the Social Security thing. Ayn Rand would *not* have had any problem with that. In fact, because she believed the government had stolen from her at gunpoint (income taxes), she had a moral obligation to recover her property by any measure necessary. So she would have approved of Paul Ryan using social security benefits to help pay for college.
See "The Establishing of an Establishment":
"The same moral principles and considerations apply to the issue of accepting social security, unemployment insurance or other payments of that kind. It is obvious, in such cases, that a man receives his own money which was taken from him by force, directly and specifically, without his consent, against his own choice. Those who advocated such laws are morally guilty, since they assumed the right to force employers and unwilling co-workers. But the victims, who opposed such laws, have a clear right to any refund of their own moneyand they would not advance the cause of freedom if they left their money, unclaimed, for the benefit of the welfare-state administration."