There's a good reason for that. If you are thinking first of others, why aren't others thinking first of you, without the interference of government, which steals part of your earnings and gives it to "the needy," making "need" a demand upon your earnings. Since "thinking about others" must be forced, it takes away from the person who earns his own way the incentive to earn. If you don't get to keep the result of your labors, why work at all? Why not become "needy" and benefit from the labor of others? When "need" becomes the standard, people fall over themselves to be the most needy

There are many fallacies the Liberals promote while pushing Socialism on the rest of us. Here are a few:

Take from the Producer (Owner) of Wealth, Give to the Non-Producer (Non-Owner):

They call this "redistribution of wealth"--a fancy, good-sounding name meaning thievery. They operate under the old Marxist saw, "from each according to his ability, and to each according to his need." Examine that for a minute. It means simply taking (stealing) the fruits of his labors from the person who actually works and earns it and giving those fruits to those who don't earn them. Can this possibly be right?

Now don't think for a moment that I begrudge help to those who are genuinely in need--the aged, the infirm, the crippled, those who, for no fault of their own, cannot earn their own way. That's called "charity," or "altruism." I have nothing against charity, or altruism, as long as it's my idea. But when the government takes from the earner at the point of a gun and gives it to the non-earner to buy his vote, it's not charity; it's forced altruism. Forced charity is a contradiction in terms. Charity cannot be forced. If it's not your own idea, it's stealing.

Raising Taxes Helps the Economy.

That this is stupid, need not be said when dealing with uncoditioned, intelligent people. But Liberals and other Collectivists have worked hard to condition people to think that the source of all wealth is the government. It's not. The government hasn't a single dollar to give you that it hasn't taken from you and everybody else previously. Raising taxes merely takes wealth out of the economy and puts it into the Liberal politicians' hands to distribute, expecting the gratitude of those receiving the benefits will be manifested in their vote to keep the Liberals in power.

What actually puts money into the economy is lowering taxes. Letting people who have earned the money keep more of it helps the economy. When you allow the people earning the money to keep more of it, you allow those who invest in job-creating, business-growing enterprises to make more profit from those investments. When they do, they create more jobs and more business and thus more taxes to be paid without raising the number or rates of taxes to be paid. President Ronald Reagan significantly lowered the basic tax rate from 70 some percent to 28 percent, and by so doing, "almost doubled the tax "take!" President John F. Kennedy (a Liberal, believe it or not) lowered taxes too, with similar results.

This has happened every time it has been tried, without fail. Why then, do the Liberals insist that this is wrong? Why do they ignore these figures and try to convince you it didn't happen that way? Because leaving wealth in the hands of the people who earn it does not allow the Liberals to spend it to buy more votes. They hate that.

Class Warfare:

To facilitate spending government funds to buy votes, Liberals promote class warfare. They demonize "the rich" as if, by becoming rich, they somehow took something from "the poor" or from those who aren't rich. In doing this, the Liberals conveniently forget that some of the richest people living are among their ranks. Such people include Ted Turner, founder of CNN, and Ted Kennedy, founder of nothing important, but filthy rich with inherited wealth from his grandfather's rum running.

There are actually two kinds of rich people--those who earned their riches honestly and those who simply inherited their riches. It is the ones who earned their riches that the Liberals seek to demonize, as if to earn riches is somehow evil and clipping coupons isn't. But "the rich" are an easy target because there aren't as many of them as there are of those who aren't so rich. Moreover, the rich have more wealth to loot.

Creating Dependency:

Liberals don't depend upon the ranks of "the poor" to grow because they know that they won't. So they create dependency by continuing to "lower the bar" on just what constitutes being "poor." They also constantly redefine things and people to add to the list of those who are "poor." They're constantly creating new "entitlements" so as to increase the number of people who depend on them. They know that otherwise the numbers on which they depend so heavily will diminish.

The poor will always be with us. But they will not always be the same people. People who are poor today will move into the ranks of the middle class, and some even into the ranks of the rich. Meanwhile, there will be new "poor" who join the ranks at the bottom. Many of those new poor are brand-new adults, just beginning their lives. But today, the largest numbers of "poor" are those on welfare--people who, in the majority, just won't work, knowing that the Liberals in the government will suck up to them and happily give them money and other valuable things, just to buy their vote and have some amount of control over their lives.

Power:

Did I forget to mention that? The Liberals' only reason for doing what they do is to enhance their power to tell the rest of us what to do. It is this power on which they get off. That's why people like Ted Kennedy, who has never in his life written a check while wondering if there is money in his bank account, promotes Socialism. You don't need to own the money, so long as you control, absolutely, how it is spent. To people like Ted Kennedy, money is nothing, because he's never a day in his life had to worry from whence his next buck is coming. There are no more worlds to conquer for such people, except to have the power to control the lives of others.

Profit Is Evil:

The Liberals want you to believe that somehow, to make a profit, is an offense against "the poor." It is not. Making a profit is essential in order for this economy to operate. Without profit, there will be no jobs, and without jobs there will be no income for them to tax. If they can't tax incomes, they have no money to use in buying your votes. They demonize large corporations, but it is those large corporations that produce the profit that is the "lubrication" that keeps this world running. Without profit, everything would come to a halt. This is one of the Liberals' most self-defeating fallacies.

They Think They Can Loot Us Forever:

That's one of the biggest fallacies under which the Liberals labor--the assumption that we will continue to feed their greed forever. But the more they loot us, the fewer people will be there to loot. As the numbers of people whose earnings are available for looting dwindles, they must loot more from each in order to keep "all their balls in the air." That's because, once they get people used to receiving their "share of the loot," those people soon become convinced that it's their due, that it's something to which they are entitled. If it fails to materialize, they riot (as they did in France when giveaway programs were cut because the money to pay for them ran out--they're running out of suckers).

In all, we are taxed, including all levels of taxation (federal, state, county, and city), more than 50 percent of what we earn. That's why it has become impossible for a family to operate on one salary. A family needs two salaries--one to pay the bills, the other to pay the taxes. As that figure rises--and if the Liberals have their way, it will rise--there will be less and less incentive for people to earn their own living and create wealth (profit) for the benefit of others as a by-product. As more and more stop earning and go on the welfare rolls, there are fewer and fewer profit-producers for them to loot. When the Liberals and their followers run out of profit-producers to loot, they'll turn upon their own number. When that happens, the end will be near.

Capitalism is the only thing that can save this world, and even the Liberals practice it. They'll never call it that, of course, but every dollar they steal from you is profit for them. False profit, to be sure (because it is not created wealth, but looted wealth), but profit just the same. They need to use that profit to buy your votes, and they need to do that while having as much left as possible to let fall into their own pockets. Their high-salaried positions in government, their perks such as the chauffeured limousines, the tax-paid junkets to exotic foreign countries, their well-appointed offices from which they can "lord it over you," all must be paid for, and the false profit they get from looting your pay is what pays for all that.

Taxes will continue to rise, count on it. The Liberals are not afraid to tax us at a 90 percent rate, especially as applied the wealth and earnings of the hated "rich." They've proven that. They just can't understand that, if you take too much away from the people, they will say "why should I earn money for the jerks in the government?"--and stop making money. Soon there will be nothing left to loot.

What will the looters do then?

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