Listening to representatives from the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, one would think that 'The State' is some sort of bank with never-ending resources.
Today, they've been having a go at the Conservatives and, in particular, their manifesto commitment regarding the funding of social care. While the Conservatives believe that people with significant assets should take responsibility for funding their own care to a large extent, the Labour and Liberal Democrat parties believe that 'The State' should pay and that individuals should be able to keep their assets to pass on to their children.
The trouble with this socialist nonsense is that 'The State' is all of its people. 'The State' has no money other than what it can take from its people and the businesses that are based in it. In other words, when they say that 'The State' should pay for something, what they mean is that the people, in general, should pay. They have no interest in protecting family assets, they simply plan to get their hands on them in different ways, for instance, through increasing inheritance taxes or introducing a wealth tax.
While the Conservatives believe in people taking personal responsibility, Labour and the Liberal Democrats believe that the bulk of the people are incapable of running their own lives and, therefore, the government should do it for them. Their way of paying for this state organised management of our lives is to tax us increasingly heavily and to borrow large sums as well.
The choice is simple. Do we want to keep more or less of our own money; do we want to run our own lives or hand over responsibility to whomever is in government ?
I know which I prefer.
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