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Dear Editor:

Some more common sense questions we should ask those advocating socialism are: Suppose the U.S. government makes necessities, such as house and rent payments, child expenses, food, transportation, medical care, college and more, "free". Since it would have to pay for these things by taxing away most of the income people make, why would anyone work?

Because under a free market producers are able to keep the fruits of their labors, the free market encourages people to innovate and produce things better, faster, and more inexpensively-creating wealth. Since socialism destroys the profit motive, what mechanism would drive wealth creation and improved lives?

There are really only two primary motivations to produce, profit and fear. The abundance and lifestyle we all see is due to one being able to attain a higher reach. Socialism discourages that productivity and ultimately

results in only enough production to appease the masters. Which would you choose?

Larry Woolston

 

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