From David Holcberg of the Ayn Rand Institute:
President Bush’s pledge to spend $15 billion to combat AIDS in Africa is an outrageous misuse of taxpayers’ money. Those who want to help AIDS victims–or any charitable cause at home or abroad– should do it privately, on their own initiative, with their own money. President Bush, however, has no moral right to force taxpayers to bankroll his “charitable” causes. Thus our government should stop giving away our money and stick to its proper purpose: the protection of our individual rights.