[Diogenesis]

"I am for doing good to the poor,
but I differ in opinion of the means.
I think the best way of doing good to the poor,
is not making them easy in poverty,
but leading or driving them out of it."

Ben Franklin, 1766

[Marathoner]

But his policies produced the exact opposite of what he'd promised.

Marxism always does.

[EricT.]

I just gotta say, I make more money now than I ever have before, but I’m not living any better than when I was making 45% less 15 years ago.

[RC one]

Communists have always hated the middle class. We are a far bigger threat to their machinations than the wealthy.

The internal enemy” of the proletarian Russian Revolution is constituted first and foremost by the lower middle classes.

From Revolutionary Essays by Bela Kun

Bela Kun Hungarian revolutionary who led the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919. Following the fall of the Hungarian revolution, Kun emigrated to the Soviet Union, where he worked as a functionary in the Communist International bureaucracy.

[kenmcg]

Most folks with 401’s aren’t rich people, but anyone checking their 401 statement recently, just ain’t whistlin’ Dixie.

[IMR 4350]

That’s the paradox of “trickle up economics”.

The higher you raise taxes on the rich to provide goods and services for the poor, the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer.

The welfare state was never intended to get anyone out of poverty, it was designed to create poverty.