Indeed, on the question of voluntary donations Nozick has some interesting points to make. He argues, I think conclusively, that those relatively wealthy people who advocate greater government redistribution (which would take from people like themselves and give to those poorer) can have no sound reason for not making, while they wait for the government to act, voluntary donations from their own pockets of the sum that would be taxed from them under the scheme they advocate, [sic] Presumably this argument applies to those who advocate greater government foreign aid, as well as to those who limit themselves to internal redistribution.
(Peter Singer, "The Right to Be Rich or Poor," review of Anarchy, State, and Utopia, by Robert Nozick, The New York Review of Books [6 March 1975])
Note from KBJ: Take note, Winnie Boal.
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 