Socialism!

Socialism!

Cry Wolf Quotes

[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism.

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From an AMA recording by Ronald Reagan, "Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine."
01/01/1961 | Full Details | Law(s): Medicare

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich; a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness.

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Justice Stephen Field, concurs with the majority opinion against the income tax.
05/20/1894 | Full Details | Law(s): Tax: Income

I considered it socialism. It is to my mind the most socialistic measure this Congress has ever had before it.

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Senator Robert Taft (R-OH).

One of the foundations of our American civilization is equality of opportunity, which presupposes the right of each man to enjoy the fruits of his labor after contributing his fair share to the support of the Government, which protects him and his property. But that is a very different matter from confiscating a part of his wealth, not because the country requires it for the prosecution of a war or some other purpose, but because he seems to have more money than he needs.

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Andrew W. Mellon.
04/01/1924 | Full Details | Law(s): Tax: Estate