Welfare is to be a product of personal or ecclesiastical decisions. The state is to be kept out of the welfare area because it has a monopoly of tax collection. By providing programs of tax-financed assistance, the messianic state transfers wealth by force from some people to others. It transfers sovereignty from private citizens and voluntary agencies to itself. It consolidates power in the name of necessity. It is forever seeking out new beneficiaries of other people’s productive efforts, in order