Providing for the Condemnation and Denouncement of Socialism in All its Forms, and for Other Purposes

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Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, when Tim Walz said that one man's socialism is another man's neighborliness, he got it completely backward. There is only one way to prosper in a capitalist society. You have to figure out what somebody else needs and get it for them better than they can get it for themselves. That might mean mowing their lawn. It might mean doing brain surgery on their child, but whatever it is, you have to help your neighbor.

Socialism is the opposite. It is taking by force what one person has earned by helping others and giving it to someone who has not. If I take a dollar from Peter and give it to Paul, I have helped Paul in the amount of one dollar and I have hurt Peter by that very same amount.

What I have really done is to rob both of them of one dollar's incentive of helping each other. Paul no longer needs to help Peter for his dollar and Peter no longer profits from helping Paul.

Freedom requires very little force because people are free to act according to their own needs and judgment and to prosper for their own talents and labor.

Socialism requires crushing government force because it must compel people to act against their own interests.

In a free society, every person gets to vote every day with every dollar they spend on what the society will produce, who will produce it, and how much they are willing to pay, all voluntarily.

In a socialist society, elites make those decisions for the people and then impose them on the people by force.

In a free society, every transaction benefits both parties by definition. In a socialist society, every transaction benefits one party while it hurts the other.

The lesson of history comes down to four words: Freedom rocks. Socialism sucks.

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