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PHOENIX -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of limited government, embraced Eric Novack's idea for protecting Arizonans from health care coercion. In 2008, Arizonans voted on Novack's proposed amendment to the state's Constitution:
"No law shall be passed that restricts a person's freedom of choice of private health care systems or private plans of any type. No law shall interfere with a person's or entity's right to pay...
Fighting a Coercion Clause
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This quote is generally attributed to Thomas Jefferson. But it has yet to be verifiably proven that he ever wrote these words.
No matter, for whoever said it was right.
BTW, notice the phrasing "give to those who would not work." It doesn't say give to those "unable to" work."