Socialist state nearing reality
Tom Martin - For the Journal-Constitution
Friday, October 27, 2000
As a devoted follower of Karl Marx, I am delighted to see the People's Democratic Republic of America finally beginning to approach the glorious Socialist paradise he and I had always envisioned. Our new slogan might be "From cradle to grave without one smidgen of personal responsibility." Consider:
Free prenatal care, free government health care, free food stamps, free welfare, free child care, free education, free school lunches, free government housing, free prescription drugs and free job training (if that's your taste).
If you want to sue somebody, there's free legal aid. There is even a delightful idea that if you do work but don't make much money or pay any taxes, the government will send you somebody else's tax refund. They call it the earned income tax credit. Is that neat or what? Even Karl never thought of that one.
All of the above is not quite yet a reality, but most of it is, and in the coming election we have the opportunity to get a good chunk of the rest.
We do, however, still have problems. A renegade element of evil capitalists, who make up perhaps no more than 25 percent of our population, have the wrong-headed idea that they can --- by work, education, innovation, skill and guts --- do a better job for themselves and their families than the government can do.
To fight this dastardly, subversive group, our politicians demonize them at every opportunity and tax the daylights out of them. We can force them to pay more taxes than all of the rest of us put together.
If they financially survive the taxes and then die, we will seize most of their estate so their families cannot benefit.
We are winning! Keep the faith! Vote Gore!!!
