This week, in the last gasps of his flatlining campaign, John McCain has been mumbling scaremongering riffs about Barack Obama’s alleged intent to use the tax code to “spread the wealth.”
Never mind that Obama’s position on taxes today is the same as McCain’s was just eight years ago – when he opposed President Bush’s intent to cut taxes for the rich and raise them for the poor, the way “the new McCain” is now proposing to do. (Incidentally, all Obama intends to do is tax the rich and give breaks to the poor the way Bill Clinton did to stimulate the economic boom of the 1990s.)
But even though I understand why Obama has to push back against any notion that he believes in wealth redistribution, I feel obliged to disclose my abiding belief in this basic tenet of socialism.
Because I believe that it is far better to spread the wealth between rich and poor, which Obama wants to do, than it is to spread the gap between rich and poor, which McCain wants to do. And this makes me (or Obama) no more a socialist than President Bush (or McCain) who just bailed out a bunch of private companies and nationalized the US banking industry….
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Michele Lee says
Your opinion about spreading the wealth just proves that you are an American by paper and not a natural born American. Americans do not want redistribution of wealth. Nobody wants their money taken by government and given to people who never bothered to educate themselves. America is not and should not be a welfare state. Regarding your last point, you seem to forget that Obama also voted for the bailout. The liberal media such as yourself is trying to run my country. I hope for all our sake that the people of America are smart on election day and pull the trigger for McCain.