Quote Originally Posted by Suppressed Poet View Post
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"

History has already proven time and again that this is NOT what lifts people out of poverty.

Also Marx made a lot of gender pronoun assumptions and should be canceled.
Nice random Atlas Shrugged quote there, though hardly accurate in this day in age. The antagonists in that book were attempting to enrich themselves by claiming their efforts were for the average man, woman and child. Taking everyone and raising them up to a standard of living equal to everyone else. But they never achieved it, because in reality they were trying to create a slave caste, all the while skimming as much loot as they could.

In our modern age, the majority of Americans pay less than 20% in taxes and the majority of those who pay more, pay less than 30% into a system that us designed to make sure no one dies from poverty. I understand you're not against this, but I ask you what in our current system of government and welfare makes you think we have a society at all like the one in Atlas Shrugged?

No one is losing all their wealth to equalize all. No one is forced to stay in a job by government mandate. Yes the rich are hoarding all the cash in the world, but doing so from a broken tax system for the most part. So I see no modern parallels to Ayn Rands boogeyman of a socialist society.