People do not work for the general good. They work for their own individual ends, which in turn promotes the general welfare. Societies that ask workers to labor for “the people” get poor results. As the joke from the old Soviet Union had it — “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work." By contrast, the capacity of the American economy to reward effort and initiative is legendary and has lured ambitious people to our shores for more than two centuries. It has also made us the wealthiest society in history.
You don't have to look at socialist countries to know that redistribution of income punishes success and rewards sloth. We've seen it here. Our welfare system was intended to help the poor — but because it was poorly structured, it wound up discouraging work and marriage, thus prolonging poverty rather than alleviating it for many.
None dare call it socialism for fear of being called racists. Don't believe me? Read this.
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