Conservatives, what's so wrong with Socialism?

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It is horribly inefficient.

While, supposedly, trying to make everyone equally rich, it makes everyone EQUALLY POOR.

Worse -- wherever it was attempted in earnest, it not only devastated the economies, but also resulted in MASS MURDER (USSR, China, Cambodia, North Korea).

And what did the survivors get? Abject poverty AND absence of basic human rights... These individual rights, BTW, are absent in Socialist regimes by design -- in the very principle, such regimes value the Collective above the Individual...

For actual examples, compare North and South Koreas, or Eastern and Western Germanies (before unification), or Estonia (after the USSR breakdown) and Finland.

Collective bargaining? Nonsense... The unions in USSR were under complete and total control of the Party. They made absolutely no attempts to "bargain" with the rulers.

= note: not to be confused with fascism or communism

B.S. -- Socialism is nothing but "Communism Lite". FYI, USSR never had Communism -- according to the Party we were "BUILDING COMMUNISM" (while living under Socialism).