[aruanan]

Confiscation of private property by the Government in the form of taxes, eminent domain and redistribution of resources to an indentured lower class for power and patronage.

Misuse of the word "indentured," which means, "A contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term." Read Spoliation by Law by Frederic Bastiat for the more apt description of what's being done and why. And he had this right all the way back in 1852.

[sodpoodle]

*enslaved* might be a more apt description.

However, the morons who put this socialist in place do, in fact, have a contract. The quid pro quo - their votes (and their souls) in return for *freebies* confiscated from the producing class.

[lentulusgracchus]

Misuse of the word "indentured," which means, "A contract binding one party into the service of another ....

Historians think that is the mechanism by which, under pressure of fierce tax collection, Roman freehold farmers were driven to seek the "protection" of local grandees, and thus became the serfs of Europe.

Note that they didn't become slaves -- they were never slaves, the slave class didn't go away (one of the oldest documents in proto-Old French is a bill of sale for a German woman slave, from the 6th century). Rather, they simply became bound -- to the land, and to their seigneur.