Slobodian 100: to (90s-era) libertarians, "[t]he great meddler with the principle of consumer democracy was the welfare state. It apportioned rewards irrespective of ability. In fact, it seemed to work perversely: it rewarded those least able. Libertarians revolted against this contravention of the performance principle as well as what they saw as the license it gave for an ever larger and more intrustive state."