Socialism and Communism

Written By:  Andrew Eide

In a Constitutional Republic, which is what the United States is, we function under a system of Capitalism. This means your property is your property and people, businesses, or government cannot take that away from you. It also means if you work hard you become successful and the money you earn is yours that means people, or businesses, or government cannot take away from you.

Under the systems of Socialism and Communism you work to produce goods or services, or to earn money, then they take most of it away from you to give it to those who are lazy and don’t want to work. They do this under the lie they just want “equality” for everyone. This is what you see Democrats in the United States trying to do now.

Here is how things work under Capitalism. Person A and makes $1,500 for the month. Person B works and makes $500 per month. Of course person B sees the difference and whines that they are not making as much as Person A. What happens is that Person A informs Person B that if they improve their education and job skills and perform better at work they will earn more money. If Person B follows that logic soon they will be on equal terms with Person A who is making $1,500 month.

But how does this work under Socialism and Communism? Person A makes $1,500 per month because they educated themselves, obtained more job skills, and work hard. Person B has not improved their education, they lack job skills, and they are lazy at work. Under Socialism and Communism the Government takes $500 away from Person A so that although they earned $1,500 they now have only $1,000 in their possession. The Government then takes the $500 they took away from Person A and hand it to lazy Person B and when added to their original income of $500 they now also have $1,000 as Person A now has.

Unfortunately Democrats and Liberals in the United States think Socialism and Communism is fair as it redistributes wealth so everyone is even. I feel that stealing from one person to give it a lazy person just so their incomes are comparable is horrible.

What is always the final result under Socialism and Communism? Person A is tired of doing double the work of lazy Person B but ending up with the same amount of money after the Government steals money from them to hand to lazy Person B. Person A figures if they reduce their work production and drop down to $500 per month then the Government will steal from someone else to give to them so that they have the same income as hard working people.

In every case where Socialism and Communism has been tried it has failed. The reason it failed is because people don’t feel like working, or farming, or making things to sell, if the Government then steals from them and hand it to others. Eventually you transition from a country where 50 percent work and 50 percent are on the take to where only 10 percent work and 90 percent are on the take and the economy fails.

Look at what happened to Venezuela in 2018 and 2019 and that tells the story of how Socialism and Communism are failures as economic and Government systems.