Ayn Rand accepting government aid was not hypocritical

Interesting arguments from my opponent. However, even an outsider unfamiliar with Ayn Rand such as myself knows that Ayn Rand's actions are hypocritical. 1. the idiom; Put your money where your mouth is.Remember the quote, “There can be no compromise on basic principles. There can be no compromise on moral issues. There can be no compromise on matters of knowledge, of truth, of rational conviction­.” ~Ayn RandWell Ayn Rand had the choice to put her money where her mouth was and she clearly didn't. That's where critics go "Ahah! Got You". So how is it complete nonsense if the logic of the "Ahah!" was put your money where your mouth was? If Ayn Rand was committed to her ideals like what my opponent states, then she would've followed through with her philosophy. 2. Receiving government aid through secrecyLets take issue with the secrecy that Ayn Rand took to receive Social Security and Medicare benefits which she strongly condemned. In the Washington post article it states, "An interview with Evva Pryror, a social worker and consultant to Miss Rand’s law firm of Ernst, Cane, Gitlin and Winick verified that on Miss Rand’s behalf she secured Rand’s Social Security and Medicare payments which Ayn received under the name of Ann O’Connor (husband Frank O’Connor). As Pryor said, “Doctors cost a lot more money than books earn and she could be totally wiped out” without the aid of these two government programs. Ayn took the bail out even though Ayn “despised government interference and felt that people should and could live independently… She didn’t feel that an individual should take help.” But alas she did and said it was wrong for everyone else to do so. Apart from the strong implication that those who take the help are morally weak, it is also a philosophic point that such help dulls the will to work, to save and government assistance is said to dull the entrepreneurial spirit." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com...)If she truly felt that her actions weren't hypocritical wouldn't you think she would have said so when she was alive?3. World is not a vaccuumMy opponent is right the world is not a vaccuum, but Ayn Rand's choices ultimately forced her to violate her philosophy. She was a heavy smoker who did not believe smoking caused lung cancer, and was eventually afflicted by lung cancer in an ironic twist. She knew that the costs of doctors for lung cancer treatment were more than her earnings from her books, and she was faced with a choice of bending her philosophy or sticking through with it. Considering how she was already accustomed to violating her philosophy by paying her taxes "reluctantly" to fund government programs that she was disdainful of, the choice may have been easy.4. Give and take necessityMy opponent states, "Ayn Rand was against taxes, but would pay them when she had to (or face the harsh consequences), and Ayn Rand was against government assistance, but accepted it when handed to her (or face the senseless hardships faced by paying taxes AND not getting anything out of it)."The argument may seem compelling, but her taxes were used by the federal government in defense, medicare, social security, infrastructure, education, and other programs like with any other citizen's taxes. Her taxes were used to fund part of the nuclear weapons arsenal of the US to deter the Soviet Union during the Cold War, fund NASA's programs, and build new roads, city buildings. Her taxes were used to provide safe consumer goods, and fund the education of the Nation's future. If that wasn't hypocritical to Rand's philosophy then I don't know what is, since she clearly got a lot indirectly or directly from paying her taxes.(http://www.wheredidmytaxdollarsgo.com...)The resolution is a clearly a put your money where your mouth is debate, and Ayn Rand clearly failed...I now pass it back to my opponent.