Oh, Just Become Communists Already

Liberals and progressives alike walk that fine line between being derps and communists.

The government owes you a job says The Nation:

"A right to a job may sound outlandish, but it’s common sense. You need dollars to eat, and unless you steal the dollars, you generally have to earn them. If the government wants to protect property with cops, courts, and prisons, issue a single, common currency, and tax and fine us in it, it should at least guarantee we can work for our own dollars. Politicians ramble about equality of opportunity and the dignity of work, but to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, we need boots. And lest our boots stomp each other’s necks in senseless competition for too few jobs, we need a job guarantee."

No. It's not 'common sense.' It's absurd.

Just like this piece of stupidity: "guaranteed employment for low-income individuals would discipline the prices of goods and services they typically buy."

So packed with common sense only a progressive can understand the above line.

In their world, everyone and anything owes you something, somewhere.

I notice the author uses the word 'skyrocket.' What, is there a progressive website that suggests a word of the month? I'm seeing it more and more.

"Whence does [the State] draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?"

Obviously Bastiat didn't believe in unicorns.

The author of the article then links to one envious Jesse Myerson - who is getting a tad too much attention for the amount of remarkable ignorance he displays all with a touch of childish smugness.

Behold what passes off as intellectualism on the left:

"The most mainstream way of flipping the script is a simple land-value tax. By targeting wealthy real estate owners and their free rides, we can fight inequality and poverty directly, make disastrous asset price bubbles impossible and curb Wall Street's hideous bloat. There are cooler ideas out there, too: Municipalities themselves can be big-time landowners, and groups can even create large-scale community land trusts so that the land is held in common. In any case, we have to stop letting rich people pretend they privately own what nature provided everyone."

And then. Gulags.

It's almost he's oblivious or worse, doesn't care, that the majority of land owners WORKED towards owning them. They worked and diligently saved money and paid off mortgages. Not only that, maintaining buildings and properties can sometimes be a job onto itself.

Myserson is so magnificently retarded, only a hard core communist with no prospect in life would agree.

And losers.