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I don't consider myself an anarcho-capitalist, but i'm very sympathetic to much of its ideology.

Anarcho-capitalists and likeminded people are not against government aid to the poor because we think a purely privately-funded charity system would serve the poor better. We oppose it because we fail to see what gives the government the right to appropriate the wealth of a private citizen and give it to another private citizen for any reason. Period.

Maybe the homeless would be better off under a totally privatized system. Maybe they would all starve to death in the first week. I don't know. But it's really irrelevant until someone can explain what gives the government the right to force private citizens to give their money away to others.