Communism and Socialism

There are 5 “named” Communist countries where the state owns the means of production.  These are China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba. 

Venezuela and other countries where the government owns major industries are close to being Communist. South Africa elected their Communist Party to govern the country. Many other countries have the Communist Party listed as a registered party.

There are many countries that have socialist policies that take many forms.  European countries have socialized medicine, restrictions on voters and liberty, plus government pension plans. 

In all countries throughout history, the family has been the basic unit of every economy, not thee government. The freedom to attain self-support is required by all governments to give to all of its citizens. This requires the freedom to own property, businesses and homes.  This is best done in a free market economy where the consumers control the prices by exercising the law of supply and demand. If the price of beef goes up, we buy chicken until the price of beef goes down.

The US has Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and many other forms of Welfare and wealth redistribution. US Healthcare and Education costs are unsustainable, because they receive excessive tax subsidies that have replaced consumer control of prices.

The US is well positioned to replace welfare with work. This will put US workers on the path to self-support.  Privatizing all unconstitutional functions should be pursued to reduce our unsustainable costs for healthcare, education and government. Our path to prosperity is small, well equipped government with limited powers. Government needs to return everything the private sector can absorb back to the private sector to lower consumer costs.  Subsidies, grants and giveaways need to be methodically reduced. Government Bureaucracies need to shrink.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-10/can-you-name-five-remaining-communist-countries-world

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader