I always wonder whether those who argue that government is as productive as the private sector have lately been to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
They probably have, but like me, tend to want to forget some of life's most unpleasant experiences.
And it, like the authors of this book, is a pawn for the socialist engineers. Never mind that collectivism has been a bloody failure everywhere it's been tried, and that Karl Marx was crazier than a pet coon in a hall of mirrors.
Good piece.
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Interesting system ... they charge some people much much more for the same 'social justice'.
How much does that refrigerator cost? ... How much do you make?
This book is a great contribution to the debate about taxes, because it reveals how many on the Left really feel about private ownership . . . but won’t come out and say so in public.
Abolishing private ownership is the left's dominant and centeral goal, and always has been.
It is always good to remember the philosophical roots of the left which can be found here: Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, published in 1848. Among their recommendations are these:
The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state ... . Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property ... . These measures will, of course, be different in different countries. Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be pretty generally applicable.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in he hands of the state.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.