Factually Wrong: Communist Manifesto and the US

Communist Manifesto	US “analog”	Crucial difference
Abolition of private property	Property tax	Paying up to 4.2% of your house value is not quite the same as having the commissars take it
Heavy progressive income tax	The IRS	I’m pretty sure the Communists wanted the taxes to be much higher, so high private business wouldn’t be economically feasible.
Abolition of all rights of inheritance	Inheritance tax	The difference between 100% and 40%.
Confiscation of all property of emigrants and rebels	Regulations requiring disclosure of foreign accounts	Difference between telling the government about something and having that something taken away
Central bank	Federal reserve	They got this one right. The Bank of England is a lot older, showing the idea isn’t uniquely Communist but it wasn’t nationalized until after WWII.
Government control of communication and transportation	FCC and other regulators	Does the author wish to state it is dangerous to post memes critical of the government, as it would be under Communism?
Government ownership of factories and agriculture	OSHA and one other logo I couldn’t read	OSHA doesn’t own productive enterprises
Government control of labor	OSHA and Dept. of Labor	“Control” doesn’t mean a bit of regulation. It means for the government to decide what labor people will engage in. Very different from being told you cannot lock the factory door.
Corporate farms, regional planning	Monstanto	A private corporation that doesn’t actually run the farms
Government control of education	Dept. of Education	Government control of publicly-funded education is a given (although it is mostly at lower levels than the federal). But private and home schooling is perfectly legal, IIRC

h/t Randy Ship