We can pay for our social policy proposals through philanthropy, some kind of user pays arrangement or through taxation. For most of the last century, we have increasingly relied on taxation as the method of financing our expanding welfare state and our growing expectations of citizenship...

While it is now generally accepted that some redistribution of economic power is a legitimate goal of government, there is no consensus as to the type of redistribution that should be pursued. In the absence of a clear redistributive goal, it is impossible to evaluate critically current law, or...