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I don't think he does, merely he is parroting what others argue. But I could be wrong now that Immy is a flaming commie. 
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Punishment of the wealthy? I'm talking about inheritance, specifically. I'm not talking about taxing the hell out of people who worked hard and made good. I'm talking about taxing inheritance such that the next generation doesn't just get to sit back and live off the interest from daddy's estate.Originally posted by Ned
More wealth is evil thinking. Punishment of the wealthy does not help the poor. It hurts them because it retards the creation of wealth in the first place. Wealth brings prosperity to all.
The focus ought to remain on equal opportunity. Today's greatest barrier to equal opportunity is not the presence or absence of high taxes on the wealthy, but the bad public education system. The only way to truly remedy this is to provide some sort of voucher system so that the poor are not locked into bad education.
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Well, on (b), it depends. For instance, I think a national health care insurance system would lead to greater social mobility, as a bad illness wouldn't paralyze an entire family financially as it currently can.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
And my takes on a) is maybe
and b) you gotta be kidding me.
Now not on a wholescale adoption, but a few "socialist" programs can help mobility (such as welfare allowing those who've lost their jobs to get back on their feet).“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Safety nets are a far cry from socialism."Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
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Not in the Nedaverse.
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Safety nets ARE "more socialist" than not having them.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Safety nets are a far cry from socialism.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Yes and Arnold Schwarzenegger is more Hitler like than me being that he was born in Austria."Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
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And as we all know, Leftism and Nazism are the same thing, which means that Arnie is actually a Communist.Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yes and Arnold Schwarzenegger is more Hitler like than me being that he was born in Austria.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
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Down with the CommieNaziTerminator!
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He'll be back.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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California! Uber Alles! California! Uber Alles!
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Originally posted by Ogie Oglethorpe
Yes and Arnold Schwarzenegger is more Hitler like than me being that he was born in Austria.
To claim that safety nets are in no way related to socialism is being willfully ignorant. Who do you think advocated the safety nets in the first place? People who complained that FDR's cabinet had socialists in it weren't far off the mark!“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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Where did I claim such a thing? Point being that being related to is not in anyway the same as "being" now is it?Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
To claim that safety nets are in no way related to socialism is being willfully ignorant.
Or shall I assume you are the same as your father? I assume you are related.
Heck there must be some socialistic policies in our governement OMFGGG we teh commies. ZOMFGGG!!"Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson
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Serious question:
Where exactly do you draw the line between having some socialist policies and being socialist?"The French caused the war [Persian Gulf war, 1991]" - Ned
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I'm not sure there *is* a line. Why not simply a sliding scale?
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