Okay, already in a controversial spot here so I'll try and make this short and simple as possible. You're saying you have to pay back student loans, get a new place to live, provide for yourself, and pay for the country's health care, the people behind you to go to college, and all other socialist programs? Sounds nice of you, but it's a little harder than that.
I'm a college student and it probably doesn't come as much of a surprise when I say I have student debt. I will have to get out of college and start working for someone who hopefully will pay me according to my major, and then I can start paying off that debt. Sounds lousy, but it does sound better than socialism. Why is that? Well because when I get out of school, if we have a socialist economy put into place, I will have to take that pay check, split it up and give it to the government so they can start to pay for the people behind me to go to school, and then still try my best to pay off my existing loans and everything else in my life. Yeah, not easy.
Socialism is defined as "any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods." I don't know if you like that, but personally, it doesn't sound like a great time to me. I know in other semi-socialist economies like Sweden tax the lowest workers 31 percent! That means if I make $100 that I am only going to get $69 of it. That number soars as high as 70 percent of income taxed. Imagine making $100,000 and giving it all to the government and keeping less than a third of it.
In reality, I understand that socialism and communism sound great on paper because they promote equality and talk about banishing poverty; however, it really is too hard to get to. The biggest analogy I've heard for it is a group project, yeah everyone is supposed to work on it but really only one or two people work on it and you end up doomed. Same thing in a socialist economy, yeah everyone is supposed to work but there are people out there who think they have a right not to work and think they can just sit around on government aid and it brings everyone else down. Aside from that, we have other people who only want to work a couple hours a week if they have a job and they don't make enough to get a good amount from when they get taxed.
I understand these cases are specific and many people don't want to believe that their progressive ideas don't work, but maybe they need a little more planning before they can work. There are currently countries that practice socialism who have to ration electricity and food to their people because the economy crashed and they have nothing to support themselves anymore. Venezuela is the best view of this and right now I don't think America is prepared in the slightest for that. I know I'm not prepared for a huge tax that will only make my student loans harder to pay off.
