We noted here poll results suggesting that most young voters (18-39) want socialism. Here is another data set that might be even more depressing:
A new national telephone and online survey by Rasmussen Reports and StoppingSocialism.com finds that 59% of Likely U.S. Voters ages 18 to 39 would support a law that imposes a maximum annual income cap for individuals. Seventeen percent (17%) would set the maximum at $100 million a year and 15% think the annual limit should be $10 million. Twelve percent (12%) favor capping the maximum income at $1 million a year, but eight percent (8%) say it should be $500,000, four percent (4%) say $200,000 and another four percent (4%) want to limit annual income to $100,000. Just 27% outright reject the idea of a maximum income cap, and 14% are not sure.
So, only 27% of likely voters between 18 and 39 don’t think the government should cap your income. In other words, a majority of young(er) Americans have absolutely no understand of, or appreciation for, freedom. They want to use the government to steal other people’s money–“democracy” as organized theft.
We Americans have kept a good thing going for nearly 250 years, but I have little confidence that freedom will survive, here, for another generation. This is partly due to the abysmal quality of our schools, which are generally more devoted to teaching socialism than arithmetic, let alone history. (If you think that doesn’t apply to your community’s public schools and “elite” private schools, you haven’t been paying attention.) But the rot must go even deeper than that.
