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To: Sean_Anthony

The title is not helpful.

All taxation could be said to take bread out of the mouths of those that earned it. But that’s not all bad, since government provides and enforces the rules of the marketplace, provides protection, implements societal programs deemed necessary by our representatives. All of which could be said to provide the enviornment in which that bread can be earned.

Socialism doesn’t just take bread out of the mouth of the earners, it takes control of the bread making process and gives it to government. Which inevitably makes the bread producing process excessively bureacratic, reducing or eliminating the incentive to produce bread efficiently and stifling innovation.

Thus socialism reduces the amount of bread made. And then takes much more of the bread that is made out of the mouth of the earners to support the huge government required.


9 posted on 02/25/2019 11:16:30 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN
You make excellent points in your #9.

Unfortunately for our current high school students who tend to be misinformed, the author understates the issue:
Socialist Democrats, like their Russian counterparts, want to take the bread from the mouths of those who earned it and use it for their own gain. The masses will be left standing in bread lines...

The author could have been more informative:
In Russia masses not only stood in breadlines, masses by the millions mostly in its farming industry, were intentionally starved to death in order to feed the larger population. Stalin brutally reduced the number of mouths to feed while greatly reducing certain disfavored ethnic groups.

16 posted on 02/25/2019 11:50:15 AM PST by frog in a pot (Result of many state bailouts? Taxpayers elsewhere in America get to finance the Left's growth.)
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To: DannyTN

Taxation is legal forced confiscation, no matter how good the intention.

Try not paying taxes.


20 posted on 02/25/2019 1:19:30 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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