"What's more greedy than to take something you have not earned?"
I do not believe this is fair, though. Nearly every state in the world taxes people. Hence, to say that taxes are a characteristic of "communism" seems weird. Of course, I see that there are people on the Left that do not see the facts, but there are also people on the Right that commit naturalistic fallacy that all wealth is fairly distributed if there are no rules from state.
I would be happy to hear your opinion on that.

On the insistence if Ricky Wiles I read the Democratic Socialists of America’s website.
To understand them you need to do the same.

In my opinion, and it is my opinion only, there is not much difference between that and the dreams of socialist founders in the other failed socialist countries.

A crime is a crime even when the perpetrator claims to be a Prince from Africa.

The actions confess what it is in fact, the words used by the perpetrator are often false, and therefore the word is as cheese is in a mouse trap.

Looks like cheese, smells like cheese, oh, oh, now my neck is pinched and I can barely breath or eat, and I can't go anywhere, at least not without expressed permission from the one who maintains the better mouse trap.

The history of the word socialism is like the history of so many other words that turn their coats like a statist to patriot to statist will do whenever the wind blows, a Romney for a recent example.

Republic original: The Public Thing
Democracy original: The Public runs the Public Thing
Federation: Voluntary Association, which means join or leave at will, pay for or not pay for at will
The Law of the Land: common law
Socialism: NOT COMMUNISM according to the Communists written into the Communist Manifesto

Learn from history or not, who cares?

That about describes it, but Corporatism is another issue that is helping drive this movement, Citizens United lobbied the working entrepreneurs into poverty then bought them all out.