Palin: Property may be owned collectively

DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin Saturday told voters in Iowa that under Democratic policies property would "collectively belong to everybody."

Speaking at a rally in Des Moines, the Alaska governor warned that Democratic nominee Barack Obama "has an ideological commitment to higher taxes" that threatens freedom in the United States.

"See, under a big government, more tax agenda, what you thought was yours would really start belonging to somebody else, to everybody else," she said. "If you thought your income, your property, your inventory, your investments were, were yours, they would really collectively belong to everybody."

Palin said higher taxes, more government and "misusing the power to tax" jeopardize freedom by leading to "government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us."

"And government kind of moving into the role as the other half of our family, making decisions for us," she said. "Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free."

Palin has frequently accused Obama during the campaign of espousing socialist policies.