I am reading "We the Living" by Ayn Rand (mostly known for "Atlas Shrugged").
This book is downright frightening. It shows the slippery slope to socialism. Private industry is socialized and then there a few things that make or break a life
- Union membership (the workers)
- Free Professions (middle class)
- Private Traders (the rich)
- Unemployed (the unemployed)
The most troubling passage regarding this is as follows.
In discussing playing for a clogged chimney, the Upravdom (landlord?) gave the breakdown on how the house would pay for it.
"The workers pay three per cent and the Free Professions ten, and the Private Traders and umemployed - the rest."
Sound like anyone's tax plan?
My two cents
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