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Old 06-27-2008, 03:04 AM
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Originally Posted by CGSTL
Call it what you like. In generic terms I tend to think of socialism as taking from those who have more and giving it to those who have less.
You misunderstand socialism then. The perfect socialist country would have no taxes at all. Instead of taxing the people, the government would raise money from profits on major industry which would all be nationalized. A good example of this is Venezuela with their oil, or Cuba with their sugar & tabacco. In a country with so much natural resources and wealth, we would not need any taxes at all if we had a system like that. But instead, we allow large multinational corporations to claim ownership of all of our resources, so we are left with nothing. Our country basically owns nothing at all, which is why the US dollar keeps falling.
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