Quote Originally Posted by oladub View Post
The OP list isn't very well thought out. The Constitution delegates all sorts of powers to the federal government, some of which require a lot of spending including the military and 'postal roads'. It specifies import taxes which somehow made this list of socialist programs.

Many of the programs on this list could, and probably should be handled by state governments, according to the limitations of the 10th Amendment. If a state wanted to have it's own single payer health care system and opt out of Obamacare, it would be consistent with the 10th Amendment whether anyone wanted to call it socialism or not. North Dakota has, for instance, opted out of the FDIC because it has its own state [[socialist) bank that insures state depositors.

What is totally missing from this list is corporate welfare. How about ending all subsidies to all businesses?

Also, there is no mention of all the government run services at the state level including police, fire, libraries, public schools, parks, roads, etc. that are also 'socialist'. Sometimes they work better than private services and sometimes not. My township made a decision to stop selling gravel to township residents. Private contractors could do it for about the same price.
Why isn't it well thought out? These are all things that are in question from those on the "tea bag" side. The guys you seem to support. It was a copy and paste job from one of the myriad websites availiable to read on the subject.