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In '[[Encroaching Control]]' Reagan says the following regarding the tax system: | In '[[Encroaching Control]]' Reagan says the following regarding the tax system: | ||
<BLOCKQUOTE>''We have a tax system that in direct contravention to the [[Constitution]] is not designed solely to raise revenue, but is openly and admittedly used to regulate and control the economy and the level the earnings of our citizens, aiming again at that mediocrity which is the utopian dream of the socialists.''</BLOCKQUOTE> | <BLOCKQUOTE>''We have a tax system that in direct contravention to the [[Constitution]] is not designed solely to raise revenue, but is openly and admittedly used to regulate and control the economy and the level the earnings of our citizens, aiming again at that mediocrity which is the utopian dream of the socialists.''</BLOCKQUOTE> | ||
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The trouble with leveling is it removes the incentive for anyone to achieve. Those that have know that some of it will be taken, so there is no incentive to achieve at a level higher than what is taken from them. Those that do not have are receiving something for which they did not work and thus are encouraged to never put forth any effort. It is one of the essences of [[Communism]]. While [[Communism]], in name, didn't appear until [[Karl Marx]], the ideas behind it are far older. Our [[Founding Fathers]] were not only against the practice, they knew how it had been tried ''and failed'' in the early American colonies. | The trouble with leveling is it removes the incentive for anyone to achieve. Those that have know that some of it will be taken, so there is no incentive to achieve at a level higher than what is taken from them. Those that do not have are receiving something for which they did not work and thus are encouraged to never put forth any effort. It is one of the essences of [[Communism]]. While [[Communism]], in name, didn't appear until [[Karl Marx]], the ideas behind it are far older. Our [[Founding Fathers]] were not only against the practice, they knew how it had been tried ''and failed'' in the early American colonies. | ||
<BLOCKQUOTE>''"The Utopian schemes of leveling [re-distribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional."''<BR> | <BLOCKQUOTE>''"The Utopian schemes of leveling [re-distribution of the wealth] and a community of goods [central ownership of the means of production and distribution], are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. [These ideas] are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional."''<BR> | ||
