Social Darwinism is a just theory

Why is success discouraged? If you increase taxes for richer citizens to help people with lower-income, you are essentially punishing hard-working, intelligent people. In regards to income-based welfare specifically, it is basically a bunch of people for other’s food and shelter. I’m not quite sure how to word this, so I’ll put it another way. 1. Taking something without paying is stealing. 2. Welfare programs involve low-income people using food stamps to buy things without paying. 3. Welfare participants are therefore thieves. 4. Stealing is unjust. 5. A program that creates thieves is unjust. This leads into my next argument… Higher taxes and why socialism is not realistic. High taxes involve the government taking a higher portion of the money that you earned. Not only does this tie into stealing, but it is a barrier that middle class workers have to deal with. If the taxes are too high, the middle class with have to rely on welfare to even eat, and then they will have to rely on the upper-class for food stamps and clothing money. If, in the end everyone is the same class with 100% taxation, it would be all good right? Wrong. A major motivator for working is knowing that the amount of money you get is based on your performance. Work extra hard and you might get a raise. Come in to work late and sleep on the job? You’ll probably get fired. A Sophmore at a high school in Minnesota set up an experiment where boys and girls would get one piece of candy for every 5 pushups. First, a socialist system was set up where the total number of pushups would be distributed equally among them whether they did 30 pushups or two. The average number of pushups was 16.2, so each person got 3 pieces of candy. Next, he set up a capitalist system where each person would get candy for every 5 pushups they do themselves. The average number of pushups was 21.2, with the average student receiving 4 pieces of candy. (1) Another major motivator for capitalism is keeping up with the Joneses. If everyone is put on the exact same level, a gigantic amount of consumerism is destroyed, and with that a piece of the economy. Evil Billionaires? When many people think of Social Darwinism, they immediately think of Rockefeller and Carnegie. These people are not robber barons, but rather philanthropists. John Rockefeller donated 10% of his earning to his church, provided funding for a college in Georgia for African-Americans, gave $70 million to the University of Chicago, and founded the Rockefeller Foundation. (2)(3)(4) Andrew Carnegie founded the Carnegie Institution to provide grants to scientific research, gave millions to towns and cities to build thousands of libraries, and funded the Carnegie Corporation. (5) Don’t you think it is better for people to willingly donate than to be forced to pay? 0=Wikipedia for helping me find the links/books 1= http://books.google.com... 2 = Dobell, Byron (1985). A Sense of history: the best writing from the pages of American heritage. American Heritage Press. p. 457 3 = Klein, Henry (2005). Dynastic America and Those Who Own It. Cosimo. p. 143 4 = Ordway, Cristopher (2009). Reveal the Rockefeller Within! 5 = http://www.americaslibrary.gov...