So before I say anything I'm a (UK) Conservative voter. This is a classic Socialist idea that the so-called wealthy have so much money that they or their family (Inheritance) has accumulated either through hard graft or pure ability that they can easily afford to just give away that money to people who don't have any. Certainly, in the UK, the Labour party would Nationalise pretty much every company if it had the chance and make them a 'Workers Commune'. So what that in reality means is taking someone's company they spent years building up and giving it for free to a bunch of people who will spend the next ten years bleeding it dry because the attitude will be "Well the public own it!"

Going off on a tangent for the minute: I find it funny that bosses who bleed their own companies dry end up going to court are vilified as capitalist scum by Socialists and yet when Nationalised companies go bust because the workers, in effect, bleed the place dry that's OK.

You'll never get a Socialist to accept that you yourself have to work at earning money, improving your situation, getting a better home and advancing your education. The whole basis of Socialism hinges on the State paying for everything by taking money from people. One of my favourite quotes from former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher pretty much sums up how I feel.

"The problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other peoples money to spend." -- Margaret Thatcher