You cannot serve both God and money." -- Jesus Christ Lord

1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of land to public purposes. *real estate*
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax. *IRS*
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance. *inheritance tax*
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels. *non US citizen, "practicing without" license, registration or permit, terrorism*
5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly. *the federal reserve*
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in he hands of the state. *commerce clause of the "constitution, state police, etc."*
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. *corporations, the EPA, land management*
8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial armies, especially for agriculture. *social security, migrant workers and minimum wage*
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the populace over the country. *suburbia, commuting to work, etc.*
10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. *public and private schools, "higher" education, evolution*
    -- Communist Manifesto