Bernie is a socialist

The perfect counter to Bernie and the socialists was given thousands of years on Mount Sinai. Thou shalt not covet.  That commandment is still in force. What other people do with their possessions is none of your business.  The rights of life liberty and property were enshrined in America’s founding and helped guarantee our fabulous success. (The success that some now envy.) When French philosophers were thinking of new ways of destroying wealth and liberty they invented socialism. It is a statist system, where the group has powers and rights that individuals do not, and compliance is enforced by government in terms of fines, jail or worse. Frederic Bastiat wrote a perfect response to their illogical and destructive proposal. Socialism should have died there, if only a good argument was a cure for ignorance. Sadly, the idea lives on that you can make your life easier by stealing a little from everyone else. And when everyone is stealing and the government makes it legal, even required, then we just need deeper pockets and more poor people to give it to.