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Old 09-03-2007, 01:05 PM
Misfire Misfire is offline
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Default Re: Shouldn\'t socialists support Ron Paul?

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If RP were King, I'd probably join a commune of about 50-100 people where we all kept half our income and redistributed the other half. Half of the redistributed portion (25% overall) would be divided equally for every member to keep, and the other half would go towards communal expenses, such as lawn maintenance and general property repair (since I hate dealing with that stuff), garbage pickup, maybe some standard cable/utility package, neighborhood security, free flowing kegs on tap at all times (maybe vote for a "citizen of the month" and he gets to choose what kind of beer will be on tap that month), and a neighborhood smoke shop that we all own, operate (hopefully with profit), and enjoy.

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If I joined your little group, what would my incentive be to actually earn income? What's the incentive of people who already have a very high incomes to join?

Edit: I think Jim Jones came very close to creating a voluntary socialist community, but with the perverse incentives created, it couldn't hold together. In the end, he had to resort to guns too.
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