The Hypocritical Morality of the Left

I have been thinking a lot about morality and government lately and the recent post from Mr Sisyphus in regards to What it Means to be a Liberal put me over the top.  For some reason religious conservatives are the ones always being pointed out for wanting the government to enforce moral values, which they do quite often.  However, and the original Chicago Tribune article shows it very well, modern day liberals', more appropriately called "the left" or "statists", are the primary perpetrators of using the government to enforce their moral code.  As stated in the article, a Liberal is one who seeks to use the government to " improve health care, education, social security, job training and welfare for the neediest members of society".

My main point is that morality is subjective in relation to the viewpoints of different people.  The government cannot create rights based on the morality of the moment.  The only rights that can be claimed by all people are life, liberty, and property.  As Frédéric Bastiat eloquently puts it in his classic witting The Law :

"Life, faculties, production — in other words, individuality, liberty, property — this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place."

The left claims that it is morally imperative for the government to meet the needs of those "less fortunate", but in what way?  Via legalized plunder in the words of Bastiat:

"The law has been perverted by the influence of two entirely different causes: stupid greed and false philanthropy...Now, legal plunder can be committed in an infinite number of ways. Thus we have an infinite number of plans for organizing it: tariffs, protection, benefits, subsidies, encouragements, progressive taxation, public schools, guaranteed jobs, guaranteed profits, minimum wages, a right to relief, a right to the tools of labor, free credit, and so on, and so on."

Is there anything more immoral, unjustified, or perverted than taking something from someone to give to someone else under the guise of morality?   The left cannot truly make a fixed list of what it means to be a "liberal" because it is based on the ever changing emotions and perceived morality of "false philanthropy" guided by a philosophy of humanism.  I do not maintain that helping others out of poverty, hunger, or unemployment is wrong, unless it is done through the government because you inevitably have to plunder another individual's liberty or money in order to do so.  Not to mention that regardless if 99.9% of the citizenry agree, those acts are acts of morality, a belief that doing those acts is good, right, and moral which is no different from the religious right wanting to have prayer in school because they believe it is good, right, and moral.  I intend to make it a running theme for future posts to point out the the various instances when the left seeks to force their morality on everyone else.