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MiddleclassMom Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 7:33 AM

Your approach also removes all incentives to work at all. The assets and payrolls would be reduced to zero leaving nothing to be confiscated and distributed or utalized by the government. Everyone would be in poverty, there would be no food, or other goods or services. There have been governments that have tried your approach--the soviet union (gone), china (only afloat because they have begun to adopt capitalist measures), North Korea--the wealthy in those countries have a lifestyle similar to the middle class in the USA. Free markets are the only proven way to prosperity.

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TS8 Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:00 AM

I found a very old History book of the US--1885. Not corrupted by revisionist changes. It mentioned several early communities in the 1600s that tried the collectivism/socialism form of government. Within a few years the people were starving and they adopted a capitalist form of government and succeeded.

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MiddleclassMom Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 7:42 AM

IMO government handouts should only be given on a long term basis to those who are incapable of providing of themselves not to the mearly lazy. Short term help could be given to those who have fallen on hard times. Now it is a very difficult line to draw as to who are the incapable, who have fallen on hard times and those whose hard times are of their own making. Which is why any help for the poor needs to be administered on as local a level as possible. Those in the same community are usually better able to distinguish the above groups of people from each other.

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NewJAl Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 7:40 AM

So middleclassmom was inspired to coalesce her thoughts into a succinct, and Historically sound paragraph. A great service that Loyal Democrat continues, here.

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