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Originally Posted by Flacolaco
Those things are all well and good. Taking a larger percentage of income from one group of people than from another group of people to accomplish them is the part that is socialist. It is a forced transfer of wealth.
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Haha, if you think subsidies for special industries are not socialist if the taxes that are used for it will come from anyone at the same percentage, then you're already a socialist.
Taking money from citizens (no matter how you collect the taxes) and spending it on special interest groups is a transfer of wealth, as well.
Printing money in order to finance the debt is also a transfer of wealth (this time from the poor and the middle class to the contractors, etc.).
Taking money from citizens and giving it to military contractors is also a transfer of wealth. The transfer of wealth doesn't stop to exist if you mess with the tax code.