Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.

Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?

Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine.

The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitarianism.

The road to evil is paved with socialist intentions.

You either limit the government, or you limit the scope of your life. Why is the government that precious to you in the first place?

The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.

Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.