EugenicHegemony wrote:
1. Abolition of private property Check
http://eugenichegemony.blogspot.com/200 ... perty.html
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. (Taxes on things, including property.)
Zoning laws and regulations - the Supreme Court ruled zoning constitutional in 1921.
Federal ownership of land; Bureau of Land Management - in Nevada 87% of land is federally owned.
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) - broad powers to seize any private property during "emergency."
The Gov can seize any private property for private/Corporatist use.
X. The abolition of private property under Marxist/Leninist dogma maintains that the individual citizen
cannot own land, and that all land is
by default the property of the government. If this were so, the government would not be required to provide fair market value for property acquired under eminent domain, nor would it be possible for persons to purchase land, nor would
intellectual property be considered a private thing (i.e. there would be no copyrights or patents).
2. Heavy progressive income tax Check
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. (Taxes on things, including income.) The Sixteenth Amendment classifies income tax as an indirect tax, or tax on a thing, as opposed to tax on a person.
Corporate Tax Act of 1909.
Revenue Act of 1913.
Social Security Act of 1936.
X. The overall effect of the income tax, once exemptions and loopholes are factored in, is that it is U-shaped. The top 20% do pay the highest proportion of their income in taxes. Next come the bottom 20%, then the second quintile (21-40%), followed by the fourth quintile. If it were truly highly progressive, there would be a clear decrease from the top quintile to the bottom. Said decrease does not exist; therefore the income tax is not highly progressive. Q.E.D.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance Check
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises. (Taxes on things, including inheritances.)
Estate Tax Act of 1916.
Social Security Act of 1936.
X. Last year I inherited a fairly decent sum of money when my grandmother died. Note the little word
all in the first sentence, fucktard.
4. Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels With the new civil disobedience act they can seize any property or assets they please. Check
Confiscation of property of American Indians.
IRS confiscation of property without due process.
Internment of Japanese-Americans during WW II; confiscation of their property.
Confiscation of drug-merchant property.
RICO Act of 1970 (Racketeering Influenced & Corrupt Organizations) - used as a basis to confiscate property.
O.O.....I'm starting to think fucktard was going too gentle on you. I happen to know plenty of immigrants (Filipino, Turkish, Cuban especially), who did not have any of their property confiscated when they entered the country. RICO in particular tends to be applied to organized crime rings (particularly illegal gambling, prostitution, and money laundering).
5. Central bank Check
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the power thereof.
National Bank Act of 1863 - established federal monopoly.
Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 1933.
As has been stated above, this idea was necessary to allow for common valuation of goods and services, and was an idea that easily predated the concept of communism (let me put it this way - the Roman Empire had a standard measure for its coins dictated by the Emperor).
6. Government control of communication and transportation Check
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to establish post offices and post roads.
U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 8: The Congress shall have the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States.
Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 - placed railways under federal regulation; created Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC).
Federal Highway Act of 1916.
Air Commerce Act of 1926.
Federal Radio Commission, 1927.
Federal Communications Commission, 1934.
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938.
Interstate Highway System, 1944.
Federal Aviation Agency, 1958.
Department of Transportation, 1966.
Ah, yes, because it would be so much easier to build roads if...nobody built roads. I can see you've never taken an economics course that discussed the concept of a public good. Try getting an education before you spout off nonsense about the promotion of public goods being communist.
7. Government ownership of factories and agriculture Check
Department of the Interior, 1849 - now includes: Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of Mines, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service.
Department of Agriculture, 1862.
Anti-trust Acts, 1902.
Department of Commerce and Labor, 1903.
Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933 - Hoover Dam, Muscle Shoals Project.
The Sherman Act is not government ownership. In fact, it's designed to promote the very competition you claim to want by eliminating monopolies and oligopolies.
8. Government control of labor Check Anyone here see the move to destroy the labor Unions in America?
First labor unions, then called federations, 1820.
National Labor Union, 1866.
American Federation of Labor, 1886.
International Workers of the World, 1905.
Department of Labor, 1913.
Railway Labor Act of 1926.
Civil Works Administration, 1933.
Agriculture Adjustment Act of 1933 - farmers receive government aid only if they relinquish control of farming activities.
National Labor Relations Act of 1935.
Works Progress Administration, 1935.
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 - set minimum wages.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 - effectively the equal liability of all to labor.
Davis-Bacon and Walsh-Healy Acts - require government contractors to pay "prevailing wages."
U.S. Unemployment Service.
So the establishment of labor unions is an attempt at government control of labor? What is this, Bizarro Union?
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries, gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country, by a more equitable distribution of population over the country.
Americans call it the Planning Reorganization act of 1949 , zoning (Title 17 1910-1990) and Super Corporate Farms, as well as Executive orders 11647, 11731 (ten regions) and Public "law" 89-136. These provide for forced relocations and forced sterilization programs, like in China. regional planning Check
Farmers Home Administration (FHA).
Zoning.
Government subsidies favor large agribusinesses
The government subsidies favor large agribusiness because they're based on a per-acre amount. The naturally large corporations formed by
lack of government intervention (they'd be broken up if the Sherman Act were followed to the letter of the law) have a competitive advantage and are able to manipulate government. But wait, corporations
don't exist in communism. Oh, shit, that's about the seventeenth hole in your theory.
10. Government control of education. Check
http://eugenichegemony.blogspot.com/200 ... izens.html
Gradual shift from private education to state funded education began in the New England States in the early 1800s.
Smith-Lever Act of 1914.
Smith-Hughes Act of 1917.
Federal school lunch program, 1935.
Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938 - children work only with government approval.
National School Lunch Act of 1946.
National Defense Education Act of 1958.
Federal School Aid Act of 1965.
You're quoting your
own fucking blog as evidence? I'm beyond boggled. That's just.....Nitram, Keevan, I'm sure you can come up with better ways of putting it than I can.
Oh, and I've already commented on this in another thread: oddly enough, the public schools provide a
better education than private schools once external factors (family income, native language, et cetera) are accounted for, so unless you're suggesting you want everyone else to be as shit stupid as you are, I don't see the benefit to abolishing public education.