First, let’s link to what started it all–Democratic Party Board member John Collins’ rebuttal to Tim Beck’s comments on McHenry County NOW’s “We Resist” demonstration on Randall Road in Algonquin:
Republican County Board member Terri Greeno replied:
Now, McHenry CPA Tim Beck has supplied a response to Jack Collins’ post:
The “Democratic Socialist” Mindset
In Jack Collins’ reply to Terri Greeno, he appropriately points out that Conservatives in 1935 didn’t champion Social Security, they resisted it.
It is true they resisted it, because the proposed legislation violated the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Conservatives’ viewpoints (then and now) is that the planning for your own personal retirement is “reserved to the people” themselves and is not a proper Constitutional role of the federal government.
Democratic Socialists wanted this program, because it was a necessary first step on their road to implement their agenda.
Jack also disparages the Department of Government Efficiency.
Evidently, he is OK with the hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud that has been uncovered in the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs.
Jack accuses Conservatives of having “clear ideological bias,” but he fails to see that the issue of clear ideological bias is true of Democratic Socialists as well.
He blames the federal government’s deficits on “unpaid for” tax cuts that “benefit the wealthy” (and corporations) instead of acknowledging the effect of out-of-control spending by the government.
That mindset is consistent with the Democratic Socialists’ philosophy that they can spend money more efficiently than the taxpayer.
And “out of control” is an appropriate term, because the spending for Social Security and Medicare are set by statute (ie, the programs are on “automatic pilot”) and are NOT separately budgeted each year.
Jack also evokes (several times) the terms “inequality” and “systemic inequities”.
Part of the Democratic Socialist mindset is that they can use the federal government as a means to redistribute wealth to achieve “equity.”
His closing statements recap the clear ideological bias of Democratic Socialists – “structural barriers that leave millions underpaid.”
(What are those “barriers”?)
“Austerity for the working class, tax windfalls for the wealthy”
(Paying taxes of any amount by any person cannot be called a “windfall”)
“Systemic inequalities” (??)
(What system is he referring to? Capitalism vs Socialism?)
“We need a government that works for everyone, not just those who already have the most.”
This last assertion is the most telling difference.
Conservatives do not believe that the act of the government coercing tax payments from any individual, in order to make a payment to someone else is an example of “working for everyone.”
Conservatives believe that type of “system” is just a means of buying votes, because a transfer payment of tax dollars from one individual to another adds nothing to the economy.
