President Biden has signed executive actions that push the idea of equity back into the federal government. Equity is the attempted leveling of outcomes, versus the equality of opportunity.

In this case the equality of outcomes is measured across racial, and sexual boundaries. From an article in the Epoch Times:

Equity means equality of outcome, a concept tied to the critical theories that slice up society into identity groups based on race, gender, sexual proclivities, and others, while positing which groups are oppressed and which are the oppressors, similarly to how Marxism labels people as oppressors or the oppressed based on class.

While the basic idea of fairness is beat into every child since before kindergarten, the definition of what is fair is differs greatly depending on who gets to define it. That is why I tend to cover my wallet pocket every time I hear the word. In this context it usually means taking from those that are perceived to be the haves, and given to the have nots. Now take the word fair and define it to what people end up with, not what they start with. Wouldn’t this mean that the more productive in a society would be required to provide to the less productive, regardless of effort expended?

This gets back to what we believe are rights that are inherent to ourselves. I have rights up to the point where they infringe upon yours. That is why things like medical care and housing cannot be rights. If they were then doctors and carpenters would be required in a society. What if no one wanted to be a doctor or a carpenter? I guess we would just conscript certain people and force them into those fields. But then what happened to their rights?

So in order to make society equitable, everyone would get health care and housing, at the expense of those that we force into those roles. We get to take away certain freedoms from some to satisfy the many I guess.

The there is the argument that “well hey, they are doctors, they have plenty of money, we will just take that and redistribute it.” We won’t look at what government price fixing and quotas do, we will just look at the idea of taxes. If I am a doctor (or any other profession) I get paid for a certain amount of effort I perform. Now someone comes in and takes a third of that salary. They have just taken a third of my effort. I have effectively been working for either nothing, or for others, for a third of my time. So out of a year, 4 months have just been given away somewhere (in this case the government) without any input from me. That is probably why they split up your taxes into each payday instead of making you pay everything up front, otherwise we would have a lot more people realizing exactly what they were losing. So if a third of my effort is effectively taken from me, at the point of a gun (see what happens when you don’t pay taxes), isn’t that my freedom being taken? Instead of doing whatever it is that I want to do, I am being forced into labor for others. All to provide equity.