You can wax eloquent about theft but it isn't going to get you anywhere but a civil war.
I've no clue what you're talking about. The paragraph you responded to was about why I wanted to see the filibuster eliminated and you're responding with words about theft.
Liberal progressive leadership has been so bad that gun control will get them killed.
How so?
Medicare and Social Security TAXES are theft.
I don't think that word means what you think it means. Theft is defined as an unlawful taking of property. Duly enacted taxes are legal and thus are not theft.
And though created decades ago that along with $17 Trillion in the War on Poverty has put us into a $20T fiscal hole that has likely stolen the future of the children.
In terms of debt burden, the future looked great as recently as 1981. Back then, federal debt was just 31.7% of GDP, and had been falling at a rate of about 2.5 points per year, since 1946, meaning we were on a pace to be completely out of debt by 1993. Unfortunately, that was the start of the Reaganomic catastrophe, and thanks to Reagan's pinning America down and spreading her legs for a good reaming by the upper-class, debt started to sky rocket. That gang rape by the aristocracy left federal debt back up to 64.0% of GDP by GHW Bush's last budget year.
That had nothing at all to do with Medicare, Social Security, and the war on poverty, which were all around back before Reagan, when federal debt was plunging swiftly towards zero. Instead, it was about tax cuts for the very wealthy and an orgy of military welfare. Those were the two things Reagan changed, and they made all the difference in the world.
Fortunately, in the Clinton years, we reversed course. Upper class taxes were raised slightly and military spending was held in check. By FY 2001, federal debt had fallen back to 54.6%.... not quite as rapid a decline as in the pre-Reagan era, but still putting us on pace to be out of debt within the next three decades. But then the Supreme Court appointed a tragically clueless president who repeated Reagan's errors, with identical results. He slashed taxes for the very rich and exploded military spending, with federal debt again shooting up as a share of the GDP (to 82.4% in GW Bush's last budget year). Again, that wasn't because of Medicare or Social Security, which had been in place in the Clinton years when debt was plunging as a share of GDP, nor was it due to some bold new initiative in the war on poverty-- Bush didn't give a damn about poor people.
Your narrative about the stolen future of our children just doesn't line up with the real-world history. Here in the real world, our kids' future wasn't stolen by way of Medicare, Social Security, or the war on poverty, all of which proved perfectly compatible with a trend of the debt burden plunging. Rather it was stolen by reckless regressive tax cuts and a bonanza of tax dollars being handed to military contractors.
The main point of being a progressive is to steal.
If we're going to redefine that word so that it includes legal taking, then one could make that claim about conservatives -- that their whole M.O. is to set up a crooked capitalist system to allow them to use market forces to steal the value created by the working class, to hand it to the upper class.