Essays on Political Economy (1874)
by M. Frederic Bastiat
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15962/15962-h/15962-h.htm
“Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organisation; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, gratuitous instruction, right to labour, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labour, gratuity of credit, &c., &c. And it is all these plans, taken as a whole, with what they have in common, legal, plunder, which takes the name of socialism.”
The Democrats stole...
Criminals steal. Criminals are individuals. Socialists/totalitarians are criminals. They lie. They cheat. They plunder. They kill. They should not be involved in the politics of the republic. Identify them. How? Easy. The weapon used most often by the criminal is the lie.
"Everything about socialism is sham and affectation." - 23.11 Ch23; Evil; Economic Harmonies; Frederic Bastiat 1801-1850
Bastiat Bump!