SOCIALISM. Ooh, scary. To conservatives, socialism means “pick-pocketing me to pay for stuff I don’t like.” What they usually “like” just fine is letting the wealthiest among us skip out of paying their fair share in taxes and allowing huge corporations get away with off-shoring American jobs, not paying taxes, receiving huge subsidies, polluting our air and water, spending millions on (Republican) political causes, haranguing their employees to vote for particular (Republican) candidates, and paying their (Republican) CEOs enormous salaries and million-dollar bonuses. That’s OK. What they “don’t like” is helping the poor (including the working poor), unemployed, dependent children, elderly, hungry, needy, disabled and sick (including veterans). Which isn’t socialism, as the vast majority of the poor, unemployed, elderly, hungry, needy, disabled and sick have paid their taxes just like you have, and thus it is their money as much as it is anyone else’s. In some ways it is a type of insurance: “If I live in this country, and pay my taxes and contribute to Social Security with each paycheck, then–should I have the misfortune to fall on hard times–I won’t have to starve, or live on the streets, or die without prompt, proper medical care.”
Posted on: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:30:07 +0000
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