; Whereas, in October of 2018 The White House’s Council of Economic Advisers published a report entitled The Opportunity Costs of Socialism; Whereas, this report highlighted the inherent failure of socialism. The report stated that [i]n assessing the effects of socialist policies, it is important to recognize that they provide little material incentive for production and innovation and, by distributing goods and services for free , prevent prices from revealing economically important information about costs and consumer needs and wants ; Whereas, this report from the Council of Economic Advisers is quoted as [w]e find that historical proponents of socialist policies and those in the contemporary United States share some of their visions and intents. They both characterize the distribution of income in market economies as the unjust result of exploitation , which should be rectified by extensive state control ; Whereas, the report by the Council of Economic Advisers also found that there is a strong association between greater economic freedom and better economic performance ; Whereas, Margaret Thatcher (1976), once argued, Socialist governments … always run out of other people’s money , and thus the way to prosperity is for the state to give the people more choice to spend their own money in their own way. ; Whereas, free-market capitalism is the greatest engine for human advancement in the history of the world, bringing more people out of poverty and into prosperity than any economic model in the history of mankind; Whereas, the United States of America is the single greatest Nation in the history of the world, due in large part because of its system of government that secures private property rights of all citizens through the genius of The United States Constitution; and Whereas, on February 5, 2019, in the State of the Union address, President Donald J. Trump declared that we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country and that America will never be a socialist country : Now, therefore, be it