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I find it hard to believe you've given your opinions on it much thought or research. Oscar Wilde nor any actual socialist advocates for crony capitalism/corporatism.


I studied economics. There is no such thing as a free lunch. You cannot make something out of nothing, that money has to come from somewhere.

Just like in physics, the laws of thermodynamics, energy and matter cannot be created nor destroyed, but converted from one form to another. Socialism is the same way, you cannot create social programs without funding them in some way. How does a government get funds? By taxation.

This article violates economics, it violates logic, it violates physics, it violates so many things on so many levels.

I am not one to just read something and automatically believe it is true. You are going to have to prove to me that it is true. Unless I see some sort of evidence, I remain a skeptic.

Down-vote me if you want, it only validates that I am correct, and you are all covering up something.


I down voted your original comment and I'm a libertarian (the kind that believes in private property). Your regurgitated comment with complete disregard for the context is exactly what makes us libertarian look like a bunch of dogmatics and hurts our cause.


Sorry I did not want to hurt anyone's cause.

I just didn't understand how you can have socialism without taxes.

Eliminating private property is basically communism as far as I know.

Sorry again if I got anything wrong.




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