Socialism

A survey by Fox News conducted this week found that 59% of Democratic voters hold a favorable opinion of socialism, compared to 49% who said the same of capitalism. This poll can be quite deceiving as it doesn't go into details, like what do these people think socialism is. Many people are attracted to this word as they think of it in terms of taxing wealthy people and then having the government use those monies to help poor people. If people are asked should the government raise their taxes the overwhelming answer is no but when asked if taxes should be raised on the rich they are much more receptive. To many socialism is a code word for redistribution of the wealth. But even that they don't want too even. The average family income is $60,000. Should every family make that? People are likely to want a more equal distribution of income as long as it doesn't mean their income will go down.