reprinted fromIZQUIERDA- The Voice of the Kalistani Left
Premier Blasts CCC for Inheritance Law
Calls law "End of Equality in KalistanKaliburg, Ananto District
September 1, 4019Prime Minister Martin explains how Inheritance and unearned wealth destroys Social Equality in KalistanFollowing the passage of an extremely controversial proposal in the
CCC Civil Rights Reform Act of 4018, the Prime Minister took to the National airwaves to blast the new Law.
"This is the end of equality in Kalistan. If this law is allowed to stand, it will mean that wealth is transferred from generation to generation, and instead of everyone starting out on an even playing field, some will start better off. The worst part about this is the pernicious notion that wealth equals power- some elements in the society, whose ancestors have been more successful, will nonetheless consider themselves entitled to a larger share of society's power and resources. Their voice will automatically be amplified by their wealth, and will drown out the millions and millions of Kalistanis who were not lucky enough to be born absolutely set for life. They will owe nothing to the society which they rely on nonetheless to protect their fortune for them from those who would come to seek to relieve them of that wealth. They will be able to separate themselves from society. They will become, in a word, anti-social, caring more for the maintenance and transference of their own individual wealth than for the need of all of society. This law debases the social character of the Kalistani people and makes us fodder for the criminal meat grinder being operated by entrenched and unearned wealth."
The Premier then carried on the discussion about the social equality which would result from the permanence of this bill on her show "National Ryot, with Jill Martin" where she hosted an hour long roundtable about this issue in particular. On the Premier's panel was the Premier herself, a Socialist Partisan named Fredrick Saunderson, a libertarian independent named Gina Geneveve, and on the other side of the debate, Professor Violetta Sanchez-Delgado, who is openly and vociferously supportive of lifting the restrictions on inheritance and a member of the old Conservative Faction, Michael Sahan Jr, who also spoke for deepening the CCC's economic program. The roundtable discussion contained very impassioned discussion by both sides, but it was Martin herself who most forcefully opposed the act, and was, in return the primary focus of the rhetorical attack from her ideological opponents.
Geneveve came to the defense of the Prime Minister's position several times, but also spent some of her fire on the Socialist Party itself for not taking a more active role in the governance of the country, to which the rise of the CCC is largely attributed. "If you all really cared about poor people," Geneveve argued, "You wouldn't have governed in a way that the CCC could win such an overwhelming majority in the first place!" The Premier was left speechless by this statement, but when Sahan Jr. returned the conversation to the topic of the inheritance bill, Martin recovered to launch the most blistering series of accusations against the bill of the night.
"The entire goal of proposals like this is to ensure that wealth is seen as property. When wealth is seen as property, the State may not redistribute it without compensating its owner. In Kalistan, we believe that wealth is not property- Property is something which always serves a productive purpose. It exists to create things, to make products, to build homes that house people, to make textiles, to produce and export the National Product. Property is defined by its productive social capacity, even privately owned property. Wealth serves only to enrich its owner. It is never bent to a social good. It is only used for an individual good, and as such is inherently anti-social in its nature. How can we possible have a society when we are allowing parts of it to isolate themselves behind a high wall built by wealth from that society? And those who defend this law are the ones who promote and seek to allow that separation, no- that destruction of our society..."
The roundtable discussion ended after a short time, and several pre-recorded segments about human rights aired for the remainder of the program, including several obviously pre-recorded segues by the Premier herself.