[Skybird]

Taxing, taxing, taxing - that's what it finally means in the end again. In other words: declare some people arbitrarily as "rich", and then plunder them.

A hundred years ago , before WW1, socialist concepts were "en vogue" in European salons and cafe-houses, and most people, whether they were monarchists or republicans, burgoise or proletarian, nationalists or confessing communists (in those times many were both in changing turns, or even at the same time), were convinced that the coming world order would be that of socialism, although the understanding of that term back then was not exactly the same like today.

But most people back then did not have a clue of what they were talking about, and additionally being blinded from visions about how advanced collectivism and socialist society was in dear old Russia,they nevertheless started to lecture about the great theory of socialism, and propagated something that they in no means had realistically and fully realised and thought to its miserable end. These people were pejoratively called "Salon-Sozialisten" or "Katheder-Sozialisten". And rightly so. And finally, socialism came to Germany. It was called NSDAP.

Socialism in the end always means the raping of natural law, and justifies the majority plundering the minority at will. It does not matter whether that is imagined to happen via a totalitarian central state like Rousseault suggested, or regional , smaller but not less totalitarian administrative structures.

You think I link you to all that when mentioning you and communism in one sentence and say that I think of you as a Kathedersozialist, since many years? Congratulations, you are right on target. But do not feel too distinguished by that. Kathedersozialismus is very wide-spread again in Germany. Like it once already was before.