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Taxpayer alert: History reminds us that a political ideology called industrial socialism caught on in some few countries in the 20th Century with unappealing results. The curious financial engine of industrial socialism was this: Heavy industry, super-subsidized by government, could grow both industrialists and government into a powerful team, a phalanx that could rule a country.

Commissioner John Albion lives in a smaller world, Lee County, Florida, where heavy industry doesn't exist. Their political philosophy is called Small-Pond Socialism, whereby county government takes sales tax $, gas tax $, and property tax $ from Joe and Jane taxpayer and uses their money to subsidize the development industry.

Listen to Albion when they speak to motions on the Board of County Commissioners. Especially listen for the word 'infrastructure.' Infrastructure is new and expanded water and sewer systems; its widened roads and new roads; its expanded airports and enlarged landfills...

Consider it this way: like rising tides on oceans raise all boats, subsidization of infrastructure on small ponds raises all taxes