This article, currently making the rounds, is just flat depressing. It reminds me that in addition to returning to the Founding principles, we need to return to calling a spade a spade.
Socialism is theft. It doesn't matter how you slice it. Socialism, redistribution -- whatever you want to call it -- requires the initiation of force by some power. C has forcibly to strip resources from A and give them to B. We don't allow this in our everyday lives. There is no reason we should allow this from our government. Just because 50% + one vote says it's okay, doesn't make it okay. Socialist democracy is just a tyranny of the majority. If we continue to allow such theft to proceed unabated, we are in for another Dark Age, a piecemeal, marginal crumbling that could happen over decades, even a century. But more importantly, state theft is just wrong. It doesn't matter who carries it out, or with whose mandate. Corporate welfare is wrong. Social welfare is wrong. And all other variants of socialism are wrong. If a majority of Americans think resources should be taken out of the exchange and savings sector and put into the charity sector, let that majority put its resources into philanthropy. But compulsory charity is evil. Socialism is theft.
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