Why don't liberals and the media ever tell us about the negative consequences of Socialism/redistribution?

[RLP]

Unintended Consequences of Socialist Policies

There are several reasons why socialism, and specifically wealth redistribution by means of taxing the rich, does not work. All of these reasons stem from one important fact of life:

People have a strong desire to do whatever is in their own perceived self interest!

The following are detrimental unintended consequences of socialism that stem from the above fact and undermine everything socialism is meant to accomplish:
â– Much of the money that goes to the government ends up being wasted, resulting in ineffective government programs, and less wealth for EVERYBODY.
â– Many are tempted to assume that money collected by the government goes to help the poor and downtrodden. However, much of that money ends up in the hands of the rich and politically connected, those who have the most resources and ability to lobby for it.
■Socialism concentrates money and power in the hands of the government. When government grows, the greedy and corrupt don’t go away. Conversely, they now have a more powerful tool in their hands, the government itself.
â– The richer you are, the easier it is for you to avoid increasing taxation and leave the bill to the middle class.
â– A soak-the-rich, high tax strategy inhibits the economy. And who is hurt the most by a slow economy? Not the rich!
■The transfer of earned wealth that socialist policies mandate are a detriment to entrepreneurship and innovation. Entrepreneurship and innovation are driven by the potential for material rewards. If we take away or reduce the material rewards, we’ll have less innovation. Less innovation means less of all the cool, useful, and life-saving stuff we all love.
â– High taxes and government regulations make it more difficult to start and grow a business, thereby leaving much greater opportunities for those who are already rich and have the resources to overcome those difficulties.
â– Social programs create more demand and need for those very programs in a self perpetuating cycle because given government handouts, people come to expect and rely on them. And therefore, you can never spend enough, because the more you do, the greater the need to do so becomes.
■Social programs are a disincentive to work and act responsibly. After all, if some or all of your needs are taken care of, and if someone else picks up the tab whenever something goes wrong, why would you worry about such minor details as work ethic, productivity, financial responsibility and family obligations? Consequently, when productivity takes a downturn, leading to a shrinking economy, guess who suffers… everybody! Oh and as always, the rich suffer the least.
■A combination of the above points causes a vicious cycle of decreasing revenues and increasing demand for social spending that results in a socialist government running out of money and having ‘no choice’ but to perpetuated tax increases to every level of society, rich and poor.
http://socialismdoesntwork.com/why-socia...esnt-work/

[Liberals]

liberals secretly support redistribution

[less_than_spam]

Sorry, I can't respond . . . my cut and paste machine broke . . .

[Adam]

HAHAHAHA, what you do, copy and paste this stuff from the Republican Party's website?

[Old School MC]

y0u get the copy and paste award!!!

[PestyKnight306]

They want to destroy America. That's their goal.

[Auroch]

As you parrot out your FOX lies.... does it ever embarrass you just a little?

[Faithful]

Good point Vacation. They know that attacking those that pay most of our taxes is the only way to bring America to naught! Did anyone watch the movie, "Obama 2016?" The real Obama and this shows by what he has done to our nation! Look at our oil prices and he did this on purpose. Now his favorite country, China is bargaining for the oil we were suppose to get from Canada. Knock knock on wood? He refused America to drill in our gulf while China was doing just that in our gulf. Then he refuses to allow our pipeline to make us independent from foreign oil while his friend, China is doing just that. Obama for China ruler! Earl

[James]

Firstly, the democrat party has an agenda it wants you to remain ignorant of, to wit:

The democrat party has always embraced Republican Teddy Roosevelt’s “New Nationalism.”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/0...sm-speech:
In a speech on August 31, 1910 in Osawatomie, Kansas TR laid out his agenda for a welfare-state, including:
-A National Health Service
-Social insurance, to provide for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled
-Limited injunctions in strikes (unions have always been a privileged class in welfare/socialist states)
-An inheritance tax
-Federal income tax
As to how his agenda would affect our Constitution he said:
”This, I know, implies a policy of a far more active governmental interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary.”

Democrat President Wilson (1913-1918) said, “You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.” He may have been the first democrat to appreciate the potential use of multiculturalism (“If it’s white or American, trash it!”) in deconstructing the Constitution, saying, “No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.” Obama put it this way: “Every nation is exceptional in its own way.”

Democrat President Roosevelt “let it all hang out” in his speech before Congress on January 11, 1944:
“We have accepted, so to speak, a second Bill of Rights...” [which included]:
-The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation
-The right of every family to a decent home
-The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health
-The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment.

LBJ’s Great Society became the largest redistribution of wealth program in our history. Obama is trying to “outperform” LBJ.

It is only because of the Internet, talk radio and Fox News (all non-existent a generation ago!) that we are learning the truth about the democrat party and how effective it has been in replacing our Constitution with its Let’s-Re-Distribute-Wealth Constitution:
-2/4/10 Gallup poll: 61% of liberals have a positive view of socialism.
-6/2/11 Gallup poll: 71% of democrats favor re-distributing wealth.
-9/6-9/2012 http://www.gallup.com/poll/157481/majori… Those who believe government should have more control over our lives: Republicans 15%; Independents, 29%; Democrats 67%.
-Now they have national health care, the foundation of all welfare and socialist states.

Secondly, democrats own the media, to wit:

Polls on how Americans saw the mainstream media (TV and print) election coverage in 2008:
-Rasmussen poll: 69% for Obama, 6% for McCain
-Pew Research poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain
-Sacred Heart University poll: 68% for Obama, 9% for McCain
-Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll: 67% for Obama, 11% for McCain

University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy survey of journalists, nationwide, during the 2008 election: 52% supported Obama versus 19% for McCain.

9/2009 Sacred Heart University Polling Institute: 69.9% agreed the national news media are intent on promoting the Obama presidency while 26.5% disagreed.

9/23/10 Pew Research poll: 43% of those who perceive bias say it is liberal; 23% say they see conservative bias.

9/29/10 Gallup poll: Distrust of the media Edges Up to Record High
Perceptions of liberal bias still far outnumber perceptions of conservative bias: 48% say the media are too liberal; 15% say they are too conservative.

9/22/11 Gallup poll: 60% perceive bias, with 47% saying the media are too liberal and 13% saying they are too conservative.

8/15/12 Rasmussen Poll: 59% of Likely U.S. Voters believe Obama has received the best treatment from the media so far; 18% think his Republican challenger has been treated better.

The pro-democrat media has ten times more viewers than Fox:
5/25/11 huffingtonpost.com: NBC Nightly News averaged 9.469 million viewers, ABC's World News 8.380 million; CBS Evening News 6.204 million; among cable networks, Fox News 2.556 million.

Why didn't your teachers inform you about the above? Follow the cash:
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php… Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2012:
-The National Education Association gave $43,613,263: 71% went to democrats, 5% to Republicans.
-The American Federation of Teachers gave $34,698,466: 86% went to democrats, 0% to Republicans.

[ideogenetic]

Socialism wouldn't exist if capitalism actually worked. The irony is we always have to come back to socialism to bail out capitalism from its internal contradictions. The injustice of the bailouts is has always been that the profits of the rich are privatized, but their risk is socialized.

If a real socialism (true Marxism, a.k.a democratic socialism) existed where BOTH profit and risk were socialized, none of the problems capitalism causes, which require giant welfare states to avoid outright revolution, would ever occur.