Socialism Is Immoral

"Thou shalt not steal." It's the eighth commandment. Parents teach this simple rule to their children when they are very young. However, it seems like our government has a hard time remembering it.

You see, the idea of the welfare state is basically immoral. Without question, it is wrong for any person (or government) to take money from a man who has worked for it and give that money to someone who hasn't. Thou shalt not steal. In a free market economy, monetary transactions are voluntary. Individuals choose what to buy, what to invest in, and who to give their money to. However, in a welfare state, transactions are coercive. The government forces you to give money to people who have not earned it, and if you don't do it, you're in big trouble.

Liberals support this as a form of social engineering. In this way, they wish to create a true class-free system, in which there are no "rich people" or "poor people" but just people. While it is admirable to help the poor, the welfare state creates a class system itself. Instead of rich vs. poor, people are divided into "tax payers" and "tax consumers." The tax payers are punished in order to reward the consumers.

All men should be individually rewarded for their own work, and individually punished for their own sloth. Similarly, mankind is judged individually by God. In his letter to the Galatians, Paul said, "Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life."

A man reaps what he sows. You get what you work for. Yeah, that sounds like capitalism to me.

Yes, our God is loving and merciful. However, He is also just. Although the Bible commands us to give of ourselves and help the poor and less fortunate, this is meant to be an individual choice. We are meant to give freely to the poor out of love, not out of forced government coercion.

"A socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely." - Winston Churchill