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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
ALL TAXES are a redistribution of wealth.
Progressive income tax is redistribution of wealth.
We've had progressive income tax in this country for the last 95 years. By the logic people are trying to apply to Obama, that means every President for the past 95 years was a socialist.
By the same measure, John McCain is a socialist, because he's not calling for a flat tax or an abolition of income taxes altogether, he just wants to keep the 35% top rate instead of raising it to 39.6%.
Apparently, in this country, you can go from being a capitalist to a socialist with just 4.6 cents on the dollar.
Gimme a fucking break.
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It has been an interesting election when it comes to what people say being tossed back at them. You are right. Taxes simply are a redistribution of wealth only those on the bottom end get services and goods, not actual cash. Yet, when Obama actually calls it what it is, he is bashed.
Earlier in the year he said that many people won't vote for a president based on his economic plan because they feel like no matter what the president says they (the voter) will end up getting screwed so instead many people cling to issues like guns and religon (things that can have real effects on them and that they can control) and vote on those topics. This has been the reality in this country forever, but he points it out and gets bashed.
I actually applaud him for saying the truth on some of these things.
I don't know that I fully support some of his tax plans (for example if you pay zero in taxes I'm not sure you should still be getting money back), but he is calling a spade a spade taxes are a redistribution of wealth no matter how you look at.