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The rich get richer by taxing the poor and using the government as their personal socialist piggybank.

Sure, the rich might be getting richer, and the poor might be getting poorer, though for all intents and purposes this change seems to affect the middle class, or what is left of it.

What I don't understand is how that ties in with socialism. In modern times, in developed countries, socialism generally pulls the poor up and the rich down (e.g. scandinavia, northern europe, canada-sort-of). How did you reach the conclusion that a relatively right-wing government is socialist?

It's socialism for the wealthy.

Okay, fair enough, I guess what I'm getting at is that I find it hard to call that socialism of any kind: it's just corrupt government via bribery (probably).

This comes down to the right in the US boiling "socialism" down to mean "the government gave you something", ie any sort of government based handout.

They of course omit this opinion when it's rich people getting government handouts

For the record, inequality is on the rise in the Nordics too.

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