Arguing with Socialists Quotes

“If you’re forcing and mandating people to act in a certain way, then it’s not really “benevolence” or “charity”; it’s effectively nothing more than tyranny, and tyranny never produces a well-functioning, happy society.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“You want to give nearly endless power over health care to the very same government socialists say is constantly engaging in crony deals with large corporations and special interests. The same government many socialists claim is “racist” and “sexist.” If you don’t trust the way the system works now, why would you want to give those in power even more power?”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“On average, Medicare only reimburses hospitals 87 cents for every dollar spent.37 How do hospitals stay in business? By charging people with private health insurance significantly more for health care services to make up the difference.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“For example, after a half-century of Johnson’s “Great Society” welfare programs, which have cost trillions of dollars, the national poverty rate remains roughly the same as it was in the 1960s.55 And despite countless promises by President Obama that his policies would make health coverage and college more affordable,56 health insurance costs and college expenses57 are significantly higher than they were when Obama implemented his reforms.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“Some socialists might object and say that freedom of speech is possible in a socialist model and that many modern socialist parties and groups in the West adamantly support free speech. That’s true, but so did the Soviets. And so did Hugo Chavez and the other socialists in Venezuela—before he started confiscating the nation’s radio stations to spew propaganda. Socialists always promise that they will protect individual rights, but, as the Soviet Constitution makes clear, not if those rights get in the way of some other, supposedly more important societal goal.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“But in a crony system, banks and government institutions grant loans to students they know are unlikely to ever pay back the loans. Schools charge increasingly higher rates because they know government will give students virtually unlimited student loan debt. This is the model America’s political class has been building for decades.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“At first, Fannie and Freddie’s quota for high-risk, subprime loans was 30 percent, but over time, the federal government sharply increased those quotas. In 1995, it was 42 percent. In 2000, it was 50 percent. By 2007, the quota reached a stunning 55 percent. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were literally being forced by law to make and rely upon absolutely horrible investments—investments so bad most people would never even dream of making them.”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“The primary problems in Finland are skyrocketing costs and demographic changes. Like the United States—and most of the Western world—Finland’s population is aging, pushing the country’s already outrageously high tax burden on a shrinking group of working-age Finns. By 2030, more than one-quarter of the country is expected to be 65 years old or older.46”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists

“In 2015, during a speech at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Rasmussen noted, “Some people in the U.S. associate the Nordic model with some sort of socialism. Therefore, I would like to make one thing clear: Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”3”
― Glenn Beck, Arguing with Socialists