A Socialist Government is far worse than the mafia. Want proof?
The mafia won't reward deadbeats and freaks in exchange for votes by crippling the most productive among us.
The mafia understands the need for incentives and support to keep the money-makers producing. Hell, we already pay for the privilege of keeping our homes (property tax), having a job (income tax), having a business (business tax), buying products and services (retail tax). The mafia would be a welcome relief!
Most entrepreneurs, and good workers, would actually flourish in a mafia-controlled government. Why?
The class system of Socialism is just slavery. Entrepreneurs are a threat to the ruling government as they have the ability to change class and thereby threaten the monopoly on power. They are crushed under Socialism, using the tools of class justice and class envy.
Socialist justice, you see, is not really justice, it is an agenda. In an O.J. Simpson/Microsoft/SCOFLAW/obesity and tobacco class-action/Janet Reno world, justice is politicized and scandalous. Votes and raw power are the locus of control. Justice under the Clinton appointees (47% of sitting federal judges today were appointed by the SinkMaster) is all about class justice as against the 'evil' corporations, entrepreneurs and the rich.
A Godfather justice system (as portrayed in the movies by Marlon Brando) would actually honor and respect good people, and punish the weasels and the unproductive. Is it pretty, no. But again, a welcome relief in comparison to the Socialist version.
The Socialists would gladly rape and pillage the economy and degrade it to third-world conditions for the masses. The ruling elite would still continue to enjoy luxury and decadence by whatever means necessary. And in comparison to the oppressed majority, they would live like Arab sheiks. The evil bastards actually enjoy the contrast. Can you say 'Mugabe'?