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Originally Posted by mar_2343

People have a problem as you have pointed out above, but more people have a problem with people and politicians spending money that isn't their money, but the tax payers money. Giving giving it to people(to feed and house) the poor who won't work (and illegal foreigners ) it isn't just wrong, its socialism and the last time I checked we as a nation are a Democratic Republic.

I think sometimes there is a confusion as to the difference between a countries economic structure & its political structure.

Governments can be democracies (pure democracies, parliamentary, republics), authoritarian (dictators, monarchs, theocracies, plutocracies) or anarchies (libertarianism, tribalism).

Economies can be capitalist (pure free-market) or communist (each person is an equal owner & recieves equal benefit from all assets in society), with socialism a mixture of both.

While I can sort of see how people would be confused due to our country's recent cold-war history & our government telling us constantly we were fighting against the 'communist government', it is possible to have a purely democratic government & a communist economy (as a matter of fact communism lends itself well to pure democracy - everyone owns everything equally & everyone gets a say in how things are done). Or you could have a dictatorship (one person rule without the consent of those being ruled over) for a government & a capitalist society if the Dictator decides to stay out of the marketplace & only troubles himself with social policy.

While it's true that there are no pure large scale communist economies, there are also no pure large scale capitalist economies either.

So, to be correct we have a representive republican government & a mixed economy, IOW, a mainly market based economy with some government regulation.

I don't remember anything in our Constitution that declares what kind of economy we will have, only the type of government.