IMMORALITY OF SOCIALISM

Socialism is legislated theft and plunder dressed up as virtue and compassion.  But it is utterly immoral to seize the earnings of the industrious and then give them to the indolent who are never challenged to reduce their burden upon society.  It benefits neither the victims of such institutional robbery nor the recipients of the contraband.  In the end, it destroys civilization.  The masterminds who champion such government "largesse" will perish in the same misery as their credulous followers when the economy collapses, as it must inevitably do.  Sustained prosperity is impossible without freedom and morality.  Any form of dictatorship, and socialism is a totalitarian evil by any measure, must fail because humans do not and cannot ever possess the knowledge necessary to properly allocate economic resources in order to achieve success.  Only a free market can accomplish this, and every other arrangement leads ultimately to starvation.  If you depend on your government to feed you, you will go hungry.

How does a professional baseball player make a profit for a farmer in Iowa, a State that has no professional baseball team?  The answer:  when fans go to the ballparks they eat popcorn that would not otherwise consume.  The farmer and the baseball player do not know each other, they never consider each other, and it was never their purpose in life to benefit one another.  But they do enhance each others' lives through their ethical pursuit of their own self interests.  Not only do they benefit each other, they improve the lives of the world.  Some peasant in China, for example, gets a taste of this prosperity by working in a factory that makes sports paraphernalia.  Similarly, the myriad of all of their other economic activities has a benefit to innumerable others around the world in ways that are impossible to discern or to enumerate (Adam Smith's Invisible Hand of the free market).  There is also a negative side to this, as oppression and injustice in remote locations will eventually harm all of us--destruction of the rain forest, war, pestilence, disease, population upheaval, pollution, etc.

Yet we continue to hear demands from the masterminds who would rule us that the "rich" must pay their fair share.  This seems to resonate with those who always look for a handout.  But is it even possible to pay a "fair share?"  Consider the fact that even those who who not own cars pay gasoline taxes.  Fuel expenses are embedded in the prices of everything we consume.  Additionally, even if you don't own property, you are paying real estate taxes.  Are you not?  Those who pay taxes must, of necessity, pass those costs along to the rest of us.  It is not a matter of malevolence or of greed.  It is just a simple issue of survival.  There is no tax on ANYBODY that is not paid by EVERYBODY!  If you tax the baker, you will pay more for your bread.  If you tax the rich, it will come out of your pocket, as well as theirs.  There is a reason that gasoline was selling for 20 cents a gallon 60 years ago but that is now will soon cost $4.  It's called TAXES!!!  Taxes drive inflation.  Anything the government spends must come out of your wallets through direct taxation, borrowing, or counterfeiting (monetary easing).  There is no scenario in which we all do not lose.

Still think that socialism is compassionate and virtuous?