Socialists Asked Who Pays for Free
Stuff, Their Answers are Revealing, by Conservative Zone.
Socialist
policies are swiftly becoming mainstream in the Democratic Party. Several of
the 2020 Democratic hopefuls for president enthusiastically tout things like
Medicare for all, free college tuition, and free housing daily on the stump.
Self-proclaimed
Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders is leading some polls including the
latest University of New Hampshire Granite State Poll. In this poll, Sanders
registered 30 percent while former Vice President Joe Biden came in a remote
second at 18 percent.
Socialism
is especially popular with younger voters. They love the concept of free stuff.
Unfortunately, many millennials don’t have a clue as to how the country would
pay for it.
Last
year, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips asked millennials in Astoria, New York
about socialism. This particular location was significant because it’s the home
of insanely popular and outspoken freshman U.S. Representative Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat.
Like
the Representative, the young people Phillips interviewed in her district said,
without hesitation, that they supported socialist policies. But, when Phillips
asked them who would pay for all of the “free” things, their answers were
revealing.
According
to TheBlaze, one individual replied, “Some of it should come from taxes, but
the government should pay for it.” Phillips aptly pointed out, “But the
government is funded by taxes.” In comment to this statement, the girl simply
said, “Yeah.”
One
guy seemed to have more confidence in Congress than most Americans do. He told
Philips, “I don’t know where the money would come from, but they can figure it
out.” This same individual also shared that he felt socialist countries are
“doing really well.”
Another
guy believed that “with a good idea and a good reason to spend their tax money,
people wouldn’t actually mind paying more taxes.”
Phillips’
interviews concluded with someone saying, “I’m liberal. I don’t know exactly,
like, where I stand, but I know, like, Democratic socialism is better than
conservative … it’s the better option.” When Phillips asked how it was indeed
better, the girl bizarrely answered “Um, when I think of it, I just think of,
like, more open-minded people, people that aren’t, like, as economically
conserved.”
Last
month, Phillips again tackled the idea of socialism with students on the campus
of Florida International University in Miami. When interviewed, most of the
students revealed they preferred socialism to capitalism.
During
this particular outing, Phillips used a clever illustration to show the
millennials how socialism could personally impact them. He inquired of them how
they’d like to “share” their GPAs and “spread the wealth” with fellow students
earning lower grades.
Unsurprisingly,
the students thought the idea was a less than stellar one. One individual said,
“I’m all for helping; I wouldn’t give some of my [GPA] points. … I’ve lost a
lot of sleep, I don’t know if it would be fair.”
Another
stated, “I sacrifice a lot to get my GPA … so, no, I wouldn’t sacrifice my own
things.” One student remarked, “That’s completely different. I’m studying all
day for my grade.” Another stated, “I guess it would be kind of, like,
hypocritical for me to say ‘no.’”
In an
effort to gain votes, politicians have a habit of promising pie in the sky
policies like “free” healthcare. Sadly, these things won’t be “free” for the
hardworking individuals who will have to pay for them through exorbitant taxes
and other means.
According
to an Investor’s Business Daily editorial, “In socialism, all roads lead to
disaster. Or, as Friedrich Hayek, the late Austrian economist, might say, to
‘serfdom.’ All forms of socialism are the same: they replace consent and
personal freedom with government power on behalf of the ‘people’.
The
piece went on to say, “Millennials need to rethink their youthful allegiance to
socialist ideology. It will bring them less income, worse inequality,
insecurity, hunger, despair and a loss of freedom.”
This
certainly isn’t the rosy, sunshiny view of socialism the 2020 Democratic
contenders are painting. Conservatives need to expose the harsh realities of
socialism before the 2020 election. If they don’t succeed, America may never be
the same.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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