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I can understand why countries would sign on to the declaration of human rights. To maintain a relatively peaceful country or world people must to some degree be happy with their lives, people around the world have different standards ofr what makes them happy, people in most third world countries are happy if they have food, but as societies become more advanced it seems that demands seem to increase. Canada and the US plus some of the European countries started of as counties that were relatively free from socialist ideas but as these societies advanced there were demands for even simple things like roads and many other things, these things had to be paid for by the people of the countries. As society demanded more from government the cost became larger to the taxpayer which left the taxpayer with less money, which in turn led to more demands on government, which led to more demands for taxes. The debt in the US has really grown in the last little while (2000 onward) because of a reduction in taxes but an expanding government beaurocracy, the move toward a health care plan is because people don't feel that they can afford insurance but if a health care plan starts then it will be more taxes and maybe food will be the next item. Part of the cause is not only taxes but the fact that over 90 percent of the wealth is in about 5 percent of the populations hands, if the truely wealthy are afraid of socialism they are going to have to make changes.

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