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Socialism: eat the rich, crap on the poor

9 November 2019

3:16 PM

9 November 2019

3:16 PM

Socialism. Mathematics. Only one is a science. And never the twain shall meet.

Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, that old fan of the Soviet Union, Bernie Sanders, is raging all over social media about billionaires.

Other assorted leftists, from Chief Elizabeth “Dances with Bull” Warren, to her ideological granddaughter, Alexandria “She Guevara” Ocasio-Cortez, are surfing the wave of public discontent with the one per cent (or five or 10), arguing that the rich should be paying “more” or “their fair share” (whatever that amounts to).

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