I’m bored, so I’m going to deconstruct this quote that is often attributed to Margaret Thatcher and show why it is not coherent. This is not endorsement of that which it is used to argue against, but a warning against using sloppy thinking.
The set of possible and existing social systems that are called “socialism” are characterized by a particular kind of distribution of resources/wealth. The “other people” referred to by the quote are the people to whom wealth is alternatively distributed to under non-socialism. But, under socialism, “other people’s money” does not in fact belong to “other people”. Instead, it belongs to whomever socialist political theory assigns it to. This is why the quote attributed to Thatcher is incoherent.
So where does all of this magical money come from in Socialism? lol.
I know! Let’s look and see how California is doing with there Socialist Utopia?
They don’t need help from the American government right?
Wait, they keep draining more and more of America’s money.
By the way, I told ya’ll on here that Democrat Politicians colluded with Russia.
Now Conservatives, the Conservative Media, and Trumps team are going to expose the truth about it more and more, over time.
Do you just purposefully make things up? California has had a balanced budget or budget surplus for the past 6 years. California has a per capital balance on payments of $348 which makes it one of the least federally dependent states.
Same old slippery slope nonsense. Every modern country in the world provides social services. To think that this should be eroded as technology and automation start to ramp up is just a clear display of human stupidity and greed.
Where does all the magical money come from now? Where do the banks get these endless funds to lend out during a downturn/recession? They couldn’t possibly be creating this magic money from nothing through the wizarding ways of our fractional reserve system, could they? Things that make you go hmmm…
