Socialism Won, by Robert Gore
It’s the wrong tense. The past tense is the correct one, socialism arrived long ago. In the US, it unpacked its bags February 3, 1913, the day the Sixteenth, or Income Tax, Amendment was ratified. When the “community as a whole” —a euphemism for government—has first call on individuals’ incomes, socialism has established its vital beachhead. Everything from there on out is a mop-up operation.
For what is “the means of production, distribution, and exchange”? The minds, bodies, time, and effort of individual producers, which the income tax expropriates. Once a government steals those, there’s nothing it cannot steal, including, via regulation, the ability of producers to produce. To impose socialism on a nation, first impose it on its individuals.
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For what is “the means of production, distribution, and exchange”? The minds, bodies, time, and effort of individual producers, which the income tax expropriates. Once a government steals those, there’s nothing it cannot steal, including, via regulation, the ability of producers to produce. To impose socialism on a nation, first impose it on its individuals.
This is an excerpt. For the complete article, please click the above link.
Expert and virtuous? Such as whom? The Constitution-gnawing termites of the Deep State? The self-serving career politicians and appointees who thrive in The Swamp?
Put all that expertise and virtue in your mouth and you won't live to see the next day for all the gagging, retching and dying you'd do.
Don't get me wrong, Mr. Gore, me dino gets what you're referring about a socialist's misguided point of view.
After me dino finished laughing, me dino eyes drifted down to the bottom of the article to read, "You Should Be Laughing At Them." I do believe that pertains to the Prime Deceit book promotion there.
Nevertheless, maybe that's how we should react to this "painful truth" in freedomforall's reply.
Laugh most particularly at the self-appointed elite's pretension of possessing more expertise and virtue than the masses they imagine as being beneath their superior personages.
Laugh right back into their smug lordly faces!
Yikes! Guess what~and it does relate~just now swam into me dino's dangerous mind!
Strzok's contemptuous smirking face!
I try to be too.
Thanks again, Robert.
I'm especially fond of the "434 socialists" who just won't admit it truism.
Also, thanks for the new vocabulary word of the day: "eleemosynary".
"In 1796 seven of the fifteen states levied uniform capitation taxes. Twelve taxed some or all livestock. Land was taxed in a variety of ways, but only four states taxed the mass of property by valuation. No state constitution required that taxation be by value or required that rates on all kinds of property be uniform. In 1818, Illinois adopted the first uniformity clause. Missouri followed in 1820, and in 1834 Tennessee replaced a provision requiring that land be taxed at a uniform amount per acre with a provision that land be taxed according to its value (ad valorem). By the end of the century thirty-three states had included uniformity clauses in new constitutions or had amended old ones to include the requirement that all property be taxed equally by value. A number of other states enacted uniformity statutes requiring that all property be taxed."
However it got worse.
"By the beginning of the twentieth century, criticism of the uniform, universal (general) property tax was widespread. A leading student of taxation called the tax, as administered, one of the worst taxes ever used by a civilized nation " ...
"The property tax as a percentage of own-source general revenue rose from 1902 until 1932 when it provided 85.2 percent of local government own-source general revenue. Since that time there has been a significant gradual decline in the importance of local property taxes.
The decline in the revenue importance of the property tax is more dramatic when the increase in federal and state aid is considered. In fiscal year 1999, local governments received 228 billion in property tax revenue and 328 billion in aid from state and federal governments. If current trends continue, the property tax will decline in importance and states and the federal government will take over more local functions, or expand the system of grants to local governments. Either way, government will become more centralized."
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Taxes will never be high enough to fully finance government.
I've paid off my mortgage, but now my combined property taxes is more than my mortgage used to be. I may be retired, but I'm still a serf to the royal government.
Earlier today I was thinking back on the conversation we once had. I hope all is well with you and yours, Robert.
Once in a while I think about that conversation, too. I just told my next-door neighbor, who have a 3-month old baby, about the dangers we discussed. He was grateful and said he'd take the appropriate precautions.
Things are well with me, and I hope they are with you and yours, my fellow heretic.
Well thought out article which succinctly and articulately defined the problem. I am not certain socialism can be changed, only a few who desire to learn may find their way because of you but that is still worth while. Thanks for your effort.
This idea that all should contribute becomes a paradigm for laws and regulations that little by little evolve into a hatred of the rich for having more and a demand to help the "deprived" with free handouts, taken, of course, from the rich as the most visible resource. Little by little this notion takes hold and becomes an entire political philosophy. And because a group or mob has more gravitational force than a lone individual, their socialist ideas take on more and more power. Respect for the rights of a single individual is pushed aside for the benefits of a majority, a collective, fueled by envy. It is nothing more than the natural motivation for survival and well-being grown into a cancerous avarice. It is easy, then, to label those who have produced value and provided themselves with a cushion of wealth and comfort as selfish and self-serving and somehow symbols of social injustice. At the extreme, such a society ends with the beheadings of the aristocrats.
It always comes down to who takes what from whom, and how. As long as there is an abundance beyond need, people can co-exist in peace. The moment a scarcity appears, the contention and predatory practices arise, whose ugliest terminus is genocide. And the practitioners of that philosophy think it's noble, not realizing that it will eventually turn on them.
How many more times does this wheel have to turn before humanity learns and embraces the philosophy of individual rights, removing force and fraud from all human relationships.
I agree with Robert that the shades of socialism were instituted by our government over a century ago. The only way to change it if the citizens of this country take back the gov't from the socialist swampies.