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Leftist commentator Joy Reid recently gave a bluntly revealing description of what she believes conservatives want: a rollback to a pre-20th-century America with no federal income tax, far fewer regulations, and the freedom to pass wealth to one’s children unmolested by Uncle Sam. Her comments — framed as a warning about a so-called “fascist moment” — landed like a gift-wrapped admission for anyone who still believes in liberty over big government.
Reid’s exact phrasing — that if you “go back before the 20th century, there were no income taxes, there were no regulations on business, you could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes” — was broadcast and immediately seized on across conservative media as proof that the Left sees prosperity and family inheritance as threats to their power. Ordinary Americans who toil for their paychecks heard something familiar in her tone: contempt for people who want to keep what they earn.
The remarks came during an interview appearance on a BET-affiliated event, where Reid tied the economic pitch to a broader cultural critique — claiming that achieving that vision would require making people “less modern” and satisfied with being mere workers. That line of argument is a classic left-wing playbook: paint independence as dystopian, and dependency as moral. Conservatives weren’t about to let that pass as sober commentary.
On Newsmax, Chris Salcedo and other conservative voices pounced — not in a reflexive tantrum, but with clear, substantive pushback: keeping more of your own money, trimming suffocating regulations, and preserving the right to pass on your legacy to your children is not a sin, it’s the essence of freedom. Salcedo’s program has become a hub for Americans fed up with the cultural elites lecturing them about how they should live and what they should be allowed to keep.
This episode underscores a simple truth the left refuses to admit: low taxes and free enterprise lift working families, not just the wealthy, and making it harder to hold onto earnings drives dependence on government and corrodes the private institutions that make prosperity sustainable. When the elites scoff at the idea of Americans owning the fruits of their labor and leaving a legacy for their children, they reveal their appetite for central control over our lives and livelihoods.
Hardworking Americans should take Reid’s outburst as a wake-up call: defend the right to prosper, fight unfair taxation, and reject any politics that treats private success as a crime to be punished. Turn off the lectures, turn up the common sense, and keep building the kind of America where families can succeed and pass that success on — because freedom and the fruits of your labor are worth protecting with every voice and every vote.
