Common Sense for Socialists
Thursday, 4. May 2006, 10:22:39
PRINCIPLE #1: Free people are not equal, and equal people are not free.
PRINCIPLE #2: What belongs to you, you tend to take care of; what belongs to no one or everyone tends to fall into disrepair.
PRINCIPLE #3: Sound policy requires that we consider long-run effects and all people, not simply short-run effects and a few people.
PRINCIPLE #4: If you encourage something, you get more of it; if you discourage something, you get less of it.
PRINCIPLE #5: Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.
PRINCIPLE #6: Government has nothing to
give anybody except what it first takes from somebody, and a government
that's big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take
away everything you've got.
PRINCIPLE #7: Liberty makes all the difference in the world.
Elaboration here. More here on Bolivia's industry nationalization plans.
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Anonymous # 13. May 2006, 03:13
Hi it is the Anonymous Filipina again.
I agree on Principle #6 after having lived here in Canada since 1988. Our current Prime Minister Steven Harper giveth 1% reduction in GST (Goods and Services Tax) as one of his election promises but has taketh half of my salary in the form of income tax. Go figure!
Anonymous # 5. December 2006, 01:03
Can you please let viewers, whom are interested, know who the Original Author of; either all the Principles(1-7) or, Principle #1?
Searched thrice, and am only receiving that its a swedish pvb.
Thank you.
Jacqueline