Nicole Malliotakis: “let me educate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Socialism is communism-lite. Socialism is the first step…”

“let me educate our colleagues on the other side of the aisle. Socialism is communism-lite. Socialism is the first step to communism. Socialism is the antithesis of the American Dream because, in this country, we believe that, regardless of where you come from or how you started, Mr. Speaker, if you work hard, if you sacrifice, and if you play by the rules, then you can succeed. That only happens in a country where you have freedom, where you have liberty, where you have self-determination, and where you have the free market. In contrast, Mr. Speaker, socialism is the belief that you work hard, you sacrifice, you do everything right, and the government can take what you earn from you to keep it for themselves or to redistribute it to whomever they choose. Millions of immigrants in this country fled their homelands to come to the United States to escape socialism and communism. Mr. Speaker, just ask your constituents from Russia, Poland, Albania, China, Korea, Vietnam, Venezuela, or Cuba, where my mother fled in 1959 to escape the very things that our new socialist mayor in New York City says he wants. He is a socialist who says he wants to seize the means of production. He wants to abolish private property rights. He wants government-run supermarkets. Yes, he says he is a socialist. Guess what, Mr. Speaker. Those are policies straight out of the Communist playbook of Karl Marx, so there is no difference between socialism and communism.”