Short: The Cost of Socialism

Socialism always appeals to the dim and uneducated because they cannot see the cost. What is lost through socialist policies is opportunity. The food that wasn't purchased, the business that wasn't started, the investments that never happened: these are the costs of socialism. When your taxes are taken from you and used to pay rent for somebody else, the cost is not only what you did not get to buy, but what you did not get to create. And if your money had not been taken would the rent you supplied go unpaid and the tenant put out on the street? Maybe. Or maybe, if there was no other option available, he would work to keep his home, feed his kids, and live his life. In the process, he would inadvertently create his own wealth and send it on down the line. He would be teach his children to do the same. ALL of that is lost in redistribution. ALL of that is the cost of socialism. Capitalism isn't politics, it's math.