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This is the same gotcha as "If you like government so much why don't YOU pay more taxes?"

Nobody refuses free government help even if they hate the government, just as no one pays extra taxes even if they love the government. The point is always to distribute their belief more widely so that everyone has to live with it.

I mean the easy libertarian response to this would be I imagine them saying "well, she was force to pay into it, she would have a right to partake of it" and they're not wrong.

"Gotcha" hypocrisy arguments about personal behaviour I don't think are great taken from either left nor right.

> I mean the easy libertarian response to this would be I imagine them saying "well, she was force to pay into it, she would have a right to partake of it" and they're not wrong.

Which, perhaps ironically, shows that welfare works as intended, even for morons that want to see it dismantled.

which just proves that we shouldn't have any welfare if it supported that hack! /s