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To: tejek who wrote (246566)	8/23/2005 9:48:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571996

Government, at various levels, allocates a vast amount of American resources. Its true that for now (at least if you ignore the effects of regulation, which isn't normally considered socialism even if it also brings decisions under government control) the private sector as a whole still controls more resources then the government, but the percentage the government controls has been on an upward trend since at least the Civil War. Note I didn't say that the US was socialist, but that "It already has been socialized quite a lot." In other words it has become a lot closer to socialist then it used to be. It would still have a long way to go to actually diserve the label socialist. "So society in general determines what to do with private property." No, I am saying who should determine what the tradeoffs will be. When you are talking about the tradeoffs made concerning private property then you are indeed saying that society in general should control private property.