Interesting thoughts...

...from the UK at Gun Culture:

We are required to pay top dollar for third rate services that we haven't asked for and in some cases that we do not receive - NHS dental treatment does not exist in my area, but I don't get a rebate on NI "contributions".

It is accepted that it is state business what drugs I use, how many portions of fruit'n'veg I eat, when I can buy alcohol (indeed how much I should pay for it), when an independent retailer should open for business and a whole myriad of ever increasing regulations on individual freedoms.

It is illegal in Blighty to pay for a vote, yet this is precisely what happens every election time. Under the Conservatives we saw headline grabbing "tax-cuts" at the pre-budget elections, under the Labour Party we have new handouts and social engineering tax systems. The people vote themselves bread and circuses and the wealth generators are expected to divvy up for them.

Essentially what we experience is institutional socialism. Or as I prefer to call it Communism Lite.