As a student at Baylor University Rand Paul once argued "underlying the whole welfare concept is the principle of theft."
Paul wrote numerous letters to his college newspaper The Lariat during his college career.
BuzzFeed News previously reported on Paul's writings in which weighed in on topics like gun control, the Equal Rights Amendment, and affirmative action with a libertarian point of view. This letter to the editor BuzzFeed News missed was titled "Stealing to help the needy."
"Money in the form of taxes is confiscated from the producers in society and redistributed to those who can't or won't produce," Paul wrote. "The immoral act of stealing thus, has become moral in the eyes of society."
Paul concluded by saying that the number of those on food stamps actually needing food is inflated and if individuals were not burdened by taxes, "the truly needy would surely be supported."
Here's the letter to the editor:
