gtrman66
11-03-2008, 08:07 PM
What is the Communist Manifesto? Here are the 10 tenants:
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
In June of 2006 the Supreme Court in the Kelo decision forced an American Citizen from their home to give to a private firm, in the interest of economic development. There is no ownership of land in the US any more. Try not paying your property taxes and see how long you "own" that piece of property.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
When the lowest of incomes are "paid" to live in the US and top earners pay more than 1/3 of their paycheck... that is progressive and it is heavy. A national sales tax is the right way to tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Inheritance is taxed so heavy in most cases that small business owners cannot will the company to their children without closing the doors and sending previously employed people into the streets and onto the gov't programs. It's a vicious cycle that must be broken.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
I haven't researched this at all.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We just put our nations into $1 trillion more debt to help this be the reality. Banks were seized in the night against their will and sold off to other banks. This was the largest power grab in the history of the US and our gov't did it while the nation said a resounding NO in calls/emails 9:1 against.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Here comes the Fairness Doctrine yet again to fulfill this prophesy.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Remember the take over and governmentization of the TSA? Employees working for private idustry one day became "unfirable" gov't employees overnight. Do you feel any more secure? The EPA has this all over it.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Agriculture is pretty much owned by big business. It's only a matter of time before the gov't calls in the debts of decades of farm subsidies.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
Hasn't happened..... yet.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production
Free education. There is nothing free. We will pay. It took me years to pay my student loans. To hear that poor little college girl whine that she was $25k in debt and BO tell her "I'm going to take care of you". That said it all.
Maybe when I get the time, I'll flesh this out some more.
1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes.
In June of 2006 the Supreme Court in the Kelo decision forced an American Citizen from their home to give to a private firm, in the interest of economic development. There is no ownership of land in the US any more. Try not paying your property taxes and see how long you "own" that piece of property.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
When the lowest of incomes are "paid" to live in the US and top earners pay more than 1/3 of their paycheck... that is progressive and it is heavy. A national sales tax is the right way to tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
Inheritance is taxed so heavy in most cases that small business owners cannot will the company to their children without closing the doors and sending previously employed people into the streets and onto the gov't programs. It's a vicious cycle that must be broken.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
I haven't researched this at all.
5. Centralisation of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with State capital and an exclusive monopoly.
We just put our nations into $1 trillion more debt to help this be the reality. Banks were seized in the night against their will and sold off to other banks. This was the largest power grab in the history of the US and our gov't did it while the nation said a resounding NO in calls/emails 9:1 against.
6. Centralisation of the means of communication and transport in the hands of the State.
Here comes the Fairness Doctrine yet again to fulfill this prophesy.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
Remember the take over and governmentization of the TSA? Employees working for private idustry one day became "unfirable" gov't employees overnight. Do you feel any more secure? The EPA has this all over it.
8. Equal liability of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Agriculture is pretty much owned by big business. It's only a matter of time before the gov't calls in the debts of decades of farm subsidies.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country.
Hasn't happened..... yet.
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labour in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production
Free education. There is nothing free. We will pay. It took me years to pay my student loans. To hear that poor little college girl whine that she was $25k in debt and BO tell her "I'm going to take care of you". That said it all.
Maybe when I get the time, I'll flesh this out some more.