OPINION:
Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was recently quoted as saying, “One man’s socialism is another man’s neighborliness.” Let’s unpack that.
True neighborliness is when people voluntarily donate their own time, effort and substance to help those in need. Through taxation, government socialists forcibly take money and other property away from Person A to offer it to Person B. Person B is told to keep voting for the socialists to continue to receive such booty. When the same thing is done in the private sector, it’s called extortion and bribery.
Person A earns the money to pay these taxes by working. If Person A is being forced to work to pay the expenses of Person B, Person A is being forced to perform involuntary servitude (aka slavery).
Even if Person B does not have a quasi-legal document purporting to grant title of ownership of the body of Person A, forcing one person to work for the benefit of another is still the essence of slavery.
As his own words show, Mr. Walz thinks bribery, extortion and slavery are “neighborly.”
THOMAS M. CRAWFORD
Laurel, Maryland
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