How is socialism a bad thing?
Socialism is a bad thing because it is the reduction of free choice. No, the object of society is NOT to redistibute wealth. See, all wealth is created. It’s not manna from heaven than just happened to fall to some and not others. And laws that require redistribution reduce the amount of wealth that is created – that’s why the people in capitalist countries that are poor relative to the rich in those countries are rich relative to the middle class in socialist countries. Socialism produces more equality but only by cutting down the top, not building up the bottom. Capitalism builds at all levels, not at the same rate but at all levels. Absolute mobility among those levels is also greater in capitalist countries. And it’s not a matter of relative mobility “compensating” for gaps of different sizes. The Ginni index is about the same in Scandanavia as it is in the US – it is common to rise from the 70th percentile to the 20th in both countries.
For example. You work hard to save up for retirement. You’ve earned enough money to do all the things you dreamed about while growing up and you also have enough to give to your grandchildren. But because of socialism the most of the money that you have earned is taken away and given to people who need it, but did not earn it. Yes you have enough to live on, maybe even comfortably, but you now can’t go travel or fulfill your dreams. I don’t like the idea of what I’ve earned being given to someone who didn’t earn it. Our system now isn’t perfect and taxes, but it isn’t complete socialism where I would have to give up much of what I’ve earned. Why should the wealthy (even middle class) give what they have earned to the people?
Nazi’s advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republicans. After Hitlers election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press. Being a Nazi was “politically correct”. The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic.. Didn’t Hillery just say she wants to take profits and cap profits on big business… and Christians were widely condemned as “right wing fanatics”. Look at what happened to these people.. Germany and Korea were divided after the Second World War into approximately equal portions. West Germany had about the same l
