Socialism Won, by
Zerohedge, 7/12/18
Some are treating
“avowed socialist” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s primary victory over Democrat
war-horse Joe Crowley as a watershed moment. Assuming she wins the general
election, she’ll join 434 other socialists in the House of Representatives.
That’s not a watershed political moment, it’s a watershed truth-in-advertising
moment. She’ll be one of the few socialists there who admits to it.
Socialism arrived long
ago. In the US, it unpacked its bags February 3, 1913, the day the Sixteenth,
or Income Tax, Amendment was ratified. When the “community as a whole”—a
euphemism for government—has first call on individuals’ incomes, socialism has
established its vital beachhead. Everything from there on out is a mop-up
operation.
For what is “the means
of production, distribution, and exchange”? The minds, bodies, time, and effort
of individual producers, which the income tax expropriates. Once a government
steals those, there’s nothing it cannot steal, including, via regulation, the
ability of producers to produce. To impose socialism on a nation, first impose
it on its individuals.
If we don’t insist
proudly that we have the first and only legitimate claim to what we’ve honestly
earned, if we aren’t willing to fight for it, we are not and never will be
free. And that’s why we need all the sideshow issues -to divert our attention
from our well-deserved servitude.
Since the dark year
1913, government has grown relentlessly larger, more powerful, and more
corrupt. The tax take has gone one direction. Even with all that loot, the
government has plunged into the abyss of debt and unfunded liabilities. The US
has become an oligarchic empire spanning the globe. At least half its
population rely on the state for some or all of their sustenance. Occasionally
the socialists have lost battles, but those have amounted to mere tactical
retreats. They’ve won the war.
If she’s elected and
goes to Washington, socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will feel right at
home...
An appreciable part of
the US’s unprecedented, privately generated bounty has always been
redistributed by people acting on their own charitable impulses, not at the
point of a government gun. Regular people, not just philanthropic millionaires,
help their families, friends, and—through a mind-boggling variety of
eleemosynary causes and organizations—total strangers.
It is time to repeal
the 2nd plank of the communist manifesto! It is time to repeal the 16th
amendment to the constitution. Time to restore the founding fathers vision.
Time to end direct taxation.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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