An excellent and brief treatise on socialism.

Stealing is wrong. And you know it. So, don't be a *ussy -- stop sugar-coating it, and just say it like it is:

“If You Want to Make an Omelet, You Must Be Willing to Break a Few Eggs.” — Lenin

And another observation about the vanity of the common wealth (or the "tragedy of the commons", which is its ultimate result):

As Barack Obama gurgles the collectivist mindset that "we rise or fall as one nation, as one people," it is fitting to recall the contrasting thoughts of William Bradford of the early 17th century Plymouth Plantation:

"At last after much debate of things, the governor gave way that they should set corn everyman for his own particular... That had very good success for it made all hands very industrious, so much [more] corn was planted than otherwise would have been ... The experience that has had in this common course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst Godly and sober men, may well evince the Vanities of the conceit of Plato's and other ancients, applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of propertie, and bringing into commone wealth, would make them happy and flourishing, as if they were wiser than God."

[With thanks to Robert Anthony Peters.][and Butler Schaffer, on lewrockwell.com]