The Seattle Times reports that Rep. Maralyn Chase, D-Shoreline, is sponsoring a state law requiring grocery stores to provide specially designed, government approved grocery bags with a tax credit for compliance and a $500.00 fine for non-compliance. This law, she says, will protect the environment. Of course. It is for the “common good.”
Naturally, this cost will be passed on to the consumers in the form of higher prices for groceries and other store products.
Recently, the Congress passed a bill that includes banning the electric light bulb. The Chinese made a fluorescent substitute; twice the cost, shorter lived and containing poisonous mercury, it requires special disposal techniques. They say it will protect the environment. Of course. It is for the “common good.”
My 1950’s dictionary defines “fascism” as follows: “2. any system of government in which property is privately owned, but all industry and business is regulated by a strong national government.”
In his new book, “Liberal Fascism,” conservative Jonah Goldberg argues that the roots of fascism came from National Socialist (Nazi Party) Germany and Italy’s National Fascist Party. He argues that the totalitarian impulse, the philosophy of state control of decisions taking priority over individual freedoms, is the core uniting principle behind these brands of socialism; and he argues that the ongoing home of these brands of state socialism are now known as the “liberal” politics of the modern progressive movement in the United States and Britain.
Jack Leicester
Shoreline
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