Welfare vs Charity

This issue bothers me more than anything nowadays, so let's have debate.

So why should a person be FORCED to help someone else? If someone needs help, they can always ask for charity.

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If liberty is good because it is the most efficient method of pursuing happiness then isn't your argument similiar to mine?

I don't believe the farmer should have his property confiscated, firstly because ownership of the farm should go to the highest bidder allowing the invisible hand of free market forces to assign the land most efficiently and secondly because whatever political authority decides the farmer is incompetent is not omnipotent and therefore not as efficient as market forces.