Socialism always fails because meritocracy is not compatible with socialist views.
As a casual, concerned observer, it seems to me that we are seeing the result of entitlement, (everyone gets a trophy), colliding with the real world that demands serious effort to survive. Sprinkle in the miseducation of those kids, teaching them that socialism is the only “fair” system, and there you go! A couple of generations that will accept almost anything in the name of fairness.
a flat tax where everyone pays the exact same percentage of their income regards of how much or how little they make is the only fair system.
It is a shame it has never passed anywhere to my knowledge
Perfect reasons to lay on mom's basement couch in front of a PS5. Sure there are a few opportunities to attend a commie brick-throwing rally once in awhile. But until mom's money runs out, it's pretty much endless Cheetos.
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If the socialist model were genuinely superior at producing human flourishing, you'd see people voluntarily organizing their own lives around it. Instead, the argument is always that it has to be compelled–which is itself an admission that it doesn't work.
A system that only functions at gunpoint isn't really a system; in the case of socialism, it's just theft hidden behind a warped philosophy of envy, greed, and laziness.
With socialism emerging among the younger generation they better take a few panhandling classes first because it’s how it ends up working and get some good shoes because you’ll be standing in line a lot.
‘Tis ironic that those promoting socialism are using the capitalistic model to support themselves. it’s a bit like sitting on a tree limb and sawing the same limb between the sitter and the tree trunk.
Effin idiots ...
The hatred of capitalism and the successful is very real and persuasive.
They’re also not deep thinkers.
Basically, it’s “look at what a disaster California is. This is capitalism!”
Never mind the cause is literally leftism.
Socialism is a scam.
Because they have ZERO real world experience with it. And, ZERO historical education on it. 😵. They won’t like the reality of it.
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Let’s cut the BS and stop calling it “Socialism.” Stop dressing it up with respectability as if its a theory of economics. Socialism, like the Welfare State, as practiced in the US at least, is the majority taking money that they did not earn from the productive (or in some cases, the rich who inherited it). Socialism is just the Welfare State on steroids; a bigger cash grab. Like Margaret Thatcher said, eventually you run out of other people’s money and it falls apart. But while you have OPM, its a lot of fun.
The old socialism, though wrong, at least had some moral seriousness about it.
What with being about workers and the means of production.
It was never pitched as unlimited free sh*t.
Furthermore the new socialist gripe against capitalism appears to be that
the means of production exist at all.
I think it was William F. Buckley who described socialism as dollars crisscrossing in the sky.
What a Value Added Tax (VAT), does is to tax things at their various stages of development.
Take for instance, a PC chassis made of Steel (a good one).
First the iron ore is taken from the earth and melted into bars of Iron. Most socialist countries then would tax the newly made bars of iron. But Wait.
Iron has to be heated, compressed, and quenched, turning it into Steel. Again, employing the VAT tax, they can then tax the newly made sheets of Steel.
Then, the sheets are cut, holes threaded for the parts to be installed. It has no power supply, wires yet, LEDs for blinking or any such thing. Yet again, value has been added. So guess what, time for another VAT.
The chassis, gets a power supply, wires, motherboard and all the parts necessary for a Gamer who buys the PC, and guess what, pays a VAT tax in that Socialist country.
Now, you would think that a Socialist Country that they would VAT tax any foreign vistors. But wait, the other socialist countries may not value each addition the same way. So, their overall vat tax may be less. And the PC, costing more where they visit, the visitor may not be inclined to pay the higher price.
So what do they do? Well, in most Socialist Countries where a VAT tax is deployed, is to Allow Foriegn visitors to be exempt from the VAT in the visited country. All, they have to do is visit a VAT desk at a travel port and show the reciept.
Instant payback.
But wait. Can't the folks in the visited country do the same with a different VAT deploying country. Well, yeah, but maybe not if your in the EU and visit another EU country?
Ha ha, usually there is a trap/catch for those who try to evade this hideous tax.
Of, course there are other hideous Socialist Practices. Maybe some of you might be willing to mention some?
I'm going back to bed.