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Socialism Is Theft---Why Are Candidates Espousing It?
Townhall.com ^ | August 22, 2019 | Jerry Newcombe

Posted on 08/22/2019 7:39:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 08/22/2019 7:39:51 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Because they plan to be the thieves of course.
And it's legal when the gov't does it.

2 posted on 08/22/2019 7:41:47 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

theft....

A wise man I heard once said “People repeat without thinking about it the old cliche that crime doesn’t pay. Crime pays and pays very well. That’s why it is always prevalent.”


3 posted on 08/22/2019 7:42:38 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen votforbing & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: BitWielder1

Tax the rich
Feed the poor
Till there are
No rich no more


4 posted on 08/22/2019 7:44:11 AM PDT by Jimmy The Snake
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To: Kaslin

Very good article, thanks for posting.


5 posted on 08/22/2019 7:50:52 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Kaslin
But these student loans are freely assumed debts. Why should everyone else be forced to pay for them?

Not only are they freely assumed, but you can assume that a portion of the loan was used for other purposes besides education; i.e., the money loaned may have gone to pay for more upscale housing, transportation, general living expenses, electronics, and fall/spring breaks or vacations.

Not all students misuse their loan money, but some do, and there's no accountability for them. Students see them aqs "free money,' at least until they graduate and have to start paying the loans off. For this reason alone, I would never absolve student loan debt.

6 posted on 08/22/2019 7:51:39 AM PDT by Lou L (Health "insurance" is NOT the same as health "care")
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Gun confiscation is theft too; especially if the citizen has to pay money to the courts/lawyer/storage to get their property back.

Wrongful confiscation should never happen but if it did; the state/county/town should pay all fees. When the firearms are lost in the system because someone in it decides they want your property and steals it, and it happens a lot, then full reimbursement (doubled) should be paid to the citizen. This will keep thefts of property down while in the hands of others. When the system has to pay out of their budget; they will want to know who did the stealing and take action. It could mean outright firing or a hold on promotions for 5 or 10 years. Chances are the thief will have his/her pay docked until the payout has been covered. I wouldn’t want a known thief working around me.

Guess who is for gun confiscation. Yep. Socialists, most dem pols, and RINO pols. Pretty much all the same thing these days. Can’t live on the difference.


7 posted on 08/22/2019 7:54:12 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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Not all students misuse their loan money, but some do, and there's no accountability for them. Students see them aqs "free money,' at least until they graduate and have to start paying the loans off. For this reason alone, I would never absolve student loan debt.

Excellent points. I hadn't thought of that. I was glad to see our troop get their loans forgiven. I'd like to think they are cut from a better cloth and didn't misuse their loan money.

8 posted on 08/22/2019 7:56:24 AM PDT by Boomer (Our melting pot has turned into a pressure cooker)
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...Why Are Candidates Espousing It?

Because it works. If they promise to share the loot those who are unwilling to make the effort to become secure will vote for them.

Of course, the candidate says nothing about becoming dependent on the loot simply means the politician will eventually own them...as in slavery.

9 posted on 08/22/2019 8:00:52 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Arguing the Founders intended the weaker of 2 possible forms of NBC for its leader is a scam.)
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The word “woke” used in the way it is used shows the ignorance of the left both to history and grammar. Somebody saying “I am woke” is an ignorant man. He is saying lets skip the rules of civilized society and discourse. Lets act as ignorant men and show white people that we side with the ignorant, uneducated colored people and use their slang as if it was 1820 in the Southern states. Lets raise nigger Jim from Huck Finn to president because he’ll do a better job as president than Trump. Let’s bludgeon you with our pretense to ignorance and stupidity... because it is a pretense. It is a pretense with a purpose. And the purpose is, “You follow us because you have white guilty and your racist sins will be absolved if you vote democrat.” It’s deceit and conceit wrapped up in one big ball.


10 posted on 08/22/2019 8:03:04 AM PDT by BEJ
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Because when you propose to rob from Peter to pay Paul, Paul is usually okay with that idea.


11 posted on 08/22/2019 8:08:10 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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Keep in mind the adage about socialism, that “You can vote your way in, but you have to shoot your way out”.


12 posted on 08/22/2019 8:09:53 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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Wrote Rudyard Kipling, a century ago:

“In the Carboniferous epoch, we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul.
But though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said “If you don’t work, you die”.


13 posted on 08/22/2019 8:12:25 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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It is true the Democrats have gone full frontal socialist. But a better question is why does the GOP is still struggle to gain a majority in a two party system?
14 posted on 08/22/2019 8:18:38 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Kaslin

Because they ARE thieves. Case closed.


15 posted on 08/22/2019 8:46:26 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: BEJ

As far back as I can remember, bad grammar has been a sign of ‘coolness’ to the little Neo-Marxists.


16 posted on 08/22/2019 8:53:38 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Kaslin

Because they are sociopathic criminals themselves.


17 posted on 08/22/2019 8:54:38 AM PDT by null and void (Heaven has an impenetrable wall, and a welcoming gate for those qualified, Hell is wide open.)
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To: Kaslin

Cause half the population thinks that theft is just peachy.


18 posted on 08/22/2019 8:56:14 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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To: Jimmy The Snake

Everywhere is
Freaks and hairies
Dykes and fairies
Tell me where is sanity

...always liked that song


19 posted on 08/22/2019 8:58:48 AM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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“Socialism Is Theft-—Why Are Candidates Espousing It?”

Democrats specialize in theft: Middle class income, the truth, peoples integrity (Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn eg) and elections to name a few.


20 posted on 08/22/2019 8:59:08 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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