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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (314559)	11/5/2002 12:07:13 PM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It sounds like English, but I can't understand a word you're saying. It's really quite simple: Communism has two basic concepts; First, it is a system of society in which the major resources and means of production are owned by the community [government] rather than by individuals. Second, in theory, such societies provide for equal sharing of all work, according to ability, and all benefits, according to need." Personal desire to excel at one's profession does not factor into the equation, other than perhaps a sense of civic duty. There is certainly no incentive to excel for economic gain, since the two are unrelated. I remember when the highest marginal tax rate was over 90%. It's existence eliminated the incentive for people to put forth effort to improve their earnings productivity any further. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. Our founding fathers envisioned a society where free enterprise and open capitalism defined our existence. It has worked well enough to make this nation the only remaining world power, yet you would seem to support eliminating some of the most basic principles on which it was founded.