Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Socialism Stinks - The Word of the Year for 2013: Redistribution

And so does Hilary Clinton for that matter.  m/r

The Word of the Year for 2013: Redistribution
by BURT Folsom on DECEMBER 30, 2013

Much of the president’s effort in 2013 has been to try to redistribute wealth from a small group of wealthy voters to a larger group of less affluent voters. Obamacare, for example, turned out to be about redistributing healthcare dollars from rich to poor: Make a small group pay more for medical care and give the money to those who earn less. The larger group receiving the subsidies, so the theory goes, will repay President Obama and his cohorts at election time.
FDR popularized redistribution in the 1930s through his New Deal programs. One of FDR’s supporters, V. G. Coplen of Indiana, explained redistribution through the WPA program this way: “What I think will help is to change the WPA management from top to bottom. Put men in there who are in favor of using these Democratic projects to make votes for the Democratic Party.”
Ever since the 1930s, redistribution has been the main tool in the Democratic tool box. There are more middle class and poor people than rich people, so taking from the rich to give to others is a natural vote getter.
There are two practical problems with redistribution. First, is economic–you can only depress an economy when you redistribute. ...
The second problem is political. 
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