There's a difference between using tax dollars to fund things that keep law and order and the government taking over the means of production nationwide.

In countries with so called "socialized" healthcare, you still pay for it by getting raped on taxes, so it's just do you want to pre pay or pay at the desk, and as more migrants are imported, you pay even more to cover them too.

If someone wants free healthcare, they are welcome to make a deal with the government and join the military.

In reality, people in dire straights physically or economically are already on socialized healthcare through medicaid or medicare.

socializing protection from an ATTACK upon our bodies should be too, no?

Assault is illegal. Criminal Justice is a tax expense.

Or are you suggesting the government buy me a gun?

Is SOCIALIZING the threat from FIRE or an ATTACK upon our shores, an American th

UR STUPIDITY is shown !!!!! Does a discussion need to be undertaken to expose UR IGNORANCE????????????????????????????????????????????????

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The common counter argument against anti-socialist rhetoric is an overly broad application of the definition of socialism to include everything that is government. This broad application is applied to necessary government functions, which often cannot be reasonable privatized, in order to pretend that socialism is a necessary good. Of course this argument precedes arguments in favor of actual socialism. This bait and switch turns a defense of appropriate government into a defense of socialism (government ownership and administration of the means of production).

Government and socialism are not synonymous.