Maggie's Farm

I've always liked the line from the Ten Years After song : "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no rich no more" because it perfectly encapsulates the collectivist mindset. Notice the song doesn't say "Tax the rich, feed the poor, 'til there are no poor no more", the poor ye shall have with you always. No, it's about greed and envy and the preference for equality in poverty and misery rather than inequality in wealth and comfort. The average "poor" person in America lives a far better life than most of humanity for most of human history could ever have dreamt of thanks to capitalism, the invisible hand of the free market, and the individual right to the pursuit of happiness and the collectivists cannot stand the fact that this happened without them and their superior wisdom in charge. They truly would rather reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven and they are determined to destroy the progress humanity has made over the last few centuries in order to build their Hell.