[soperj]

Technically wouldn't it be everyone profiting since it's going to government? If it was an foriegn business owner like alot of resorts in the bahamas, who would be profiting there? Certainly not the people living on the island.

[adventured]

Your assumption rests on the notion that the government = everyone, and that the people in power aren't focusing that money toward their own pockets. I'm not aware of a Socialist government that has ever existed that did anything but line their own pockets while the people starved and went without.

Mao's China, Lenin & Stalin's USSR, old Vietnam, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Hugo's Venezuela, Fidel's Cuba, North Korea. It's the same story every time.

[lawnchair_larry]

Norway?

Socialism is a spectrum.

[cheez]

Even in a democracy you'd be lucky if that were even 10% true. In a socialist government, even more unlikely.

[soperj]

10% more than you get when it's just taken straight out of the country.