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Originally Posted by mikesouth
While I can equally admire the uncorrupt ideology of communism as well as that of pure Democracy both are a utopia and as such would never work, thus you get the corruption of both the old soviet form of Communism and the Current day American idea of Democracy (Which is, in reality, a Constitutional Republic)
The problem with the Soviet system was that there was no incentive to produce and our current system is seeing a similar problem in that the non producers have learned that they can vote themselves a living from those who do produce, taking away the incentive for the producers to take the risks.
Government red tape and oversight has caused prices to soar pushing things like health care out of the reach of the average person because the people capable of assuming the risk want a better return for doing so. The result being that both government and big business have become completely corrupt.
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I don't support communism any more than I support laissez-faire capitalism, I was just using that to illustrate a point. What we should be doing, in my opinion, is implementing the aspects of political philosophies that are most practical right now, whether they're socialist, capitalist, communist or a combination of all three makes no difference to me.
I don't really follow what you mean when you say non-producers, do you mean the workers that actually turn the wheels of the economy and make the fortunes for so many who quite possibly continue to pay rather less taxes than they really ought to?
You say government oversight is causing prices to soar but you don't mention that lack of government oversight is partially what led us into the recession we're experiencing right now.