Communist Manifesto

Pros:   A graduated income tax should work.  As people get more money, they have more money to give to the government.

A centralized bank could potentially work in a perfect world, but not the real world.  It would be nice to all have equal banking and rights to money.  The problem is that banks need to make money too.

Free education is something we have today.  It is very useful and actually works correctly.  Other than teachers' unions striking, the public school system runs smoothly.  It is funded based on the amount of students and wealth of the town.  It means that everyone, no matter how much money they have, should start out with the same foundational education.  Because of funding, poorer people often get a worse education, but the main idea works.

Equal obligation also sounds like it should work.  Labor should be distributed equally.  People should work about as hard as each other, and people should make about the same amount of money.  The problem is that the owner of a high tech business can't be making the same as the guy selling burgers at McDonald's.  This idea would only work if it was graduated, so there were tiers of income based on position.


Cons:   Abolition of all rights or inheritance would mean that when someone died, their possessions would go to the government, not whomever they wrote in their will.  This would supposedly put people all on the same starting level, but really it just creates a system were everyone struggles, instead of some people.

Confiscation of property of all emigrants and rebels would make the rebellions worse.  If you anger rebels, they rebel more.  If rebels don't have a home, they live on the streets and rebel more.  If rebels don't have rights, they have more to rebel against.

The state can't control everything.  If the state controlled everything, it would be a small group of misrepresenting men making the rules.  For example, if our government controlled everything with the public having no say, there would be a death penalty in every state, no gay marriage, no abortion, and no minorities in the public eye.

People can't combine agriculture and production industries.  They work off of each other, but they would bring each other down if they were the same thing.  They each need the other, but if production and agriculture were owned by the same people, first, many people would be jobless, second, people wouldn't have options in products.  They would all be created by the same people.