By Jon Caldera | Commentary, Denver Gazette
A key part of the planned march toward socialism is, of course, endless propaganda.
It’s not enough just to rely on the politics of envy. We need to take away those dangerous little opportunities where young people might accidentally experience the benefit of the free market in their fledgling lives. So how can we teach children to participate in class warfare, punish the productive by taking their stuff and that property rights and free exchange don’t exist?
Enter Colorado’s oversubscribed, already broke (as all redistribution schemes become) “free” school lunch program. Who could have guessed a $50 million take-from-thy-neighbor scheme would quickly cost $150 million?
The free lunch program taxes Coloradans who make “too much money” to purchase a one-size-fits-no-one, state-delivered school lunch. The successful are castigated so a group of elites can decide what other people’s children should consume.
Now that’s serving up a slice of Marxism in every meal.
It’s a tiny step toward the addictive dependency state so small it’s barely perceivable.
It’s right up there with outlawing plastic straws and stealing gasoline taxes to feed transit. It is the very definition of creeping socialism.
Now, school kids might not understand someone else’s more successful parents paid for their free lunch. They’ll still think there is such thing as a free lunch. But they will be trained in the joys of equal outcome. Their peers are also eating basically the same soggy, bland meal.
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