Andrew Dickens Afternoons

It always intrigues me when people rail on about our current government by calling it a socialist one because at its most basic, all governments are socialist.In essence they tax us all, if there is a progressive tax system that means they take more money from the rich and then they redistribute it to the poor.So all our governments are socialist. We just have rightish and leftish versions of the same thing. Which is why over the past 30 odd years since Rogernomics we have had basically the same system. The deckchairs are just moved about on the Titanic.This government is more leftish than the last more rightish socialist government. Some say they tax more which if you consider the regional fuel tax rises is true. But it’s also worth noting that the basic tax system is unchanged from the previous governments.Certainly the very first thing they did was give more money to beneficiaries and Working for Families which is classic re-distribution of wealth. But other than the budget the benefit system is unchanged