One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit.
When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist “benefits,” when you start telling them which schools their children must attend, when you start giving jobs away to people based on race instead of ability… you quash human freedom, which bogs down productivity and if continued for long enough leads to social collapse.
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Its NOT the desire for "liberty" that wrecks socialism...its the failure to recognize the fact that people want a reward for effort. No one works 18 hours a day for 5 years so his NEIGHBOR can eat or dive a BMW. When people work hard and the fruits of their labor go to someone else, hard work comes to an end. But it is apparently necessary for SOME people to learn that each generation, no matter how many times it fails.
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