It is more than 30 years since I first attended a conference on the global welfare crisis. Rarely have a few months passed without an invitation to another. Last week, Tom Palmer, the American libertarian, came to London to denounce the “world-straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation and social control we call the welfare state”.
30多年前,我第一次參加了一場關於全球福利危機的會議。從此以後,我幾乎每隔幾個月就會收到一張出席這類會議的邀請。上週,美國自由派人士湯姆•龐馬(Tom Palmer)來到倫敦,譴責「跨越世界的帶動偷竊、墮落、操縱和社會控制等各種現象的火車頭——我們稱之爲福利國家」。
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