First watch this video with Joe the Plumber, if you haven't seen it yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwtnPi7hi0U&feature=related
To me, what Obama is saying sounds very socialistic, bordering on Communism. Quoting Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”. Every time I hear this quote, my stomach turns. This is basically what Obama is telling Joe the Plumber. Maybe this is exactly what some Democrats wants to hear, I’m not sure. If you're a Democrat, you may like how Obama says he'll help the little guy, but as history has already proven, Communism failed miserably, do you think the US should try it? This idea of taxing those who make more at a higher rate and giving it to the poor is very in line with what Marx believed.
Seems to me if the government increases the taxes on small businesses making more than $250k per year and increases taxes on large companies, that they’d have less money to hire new employees. So sure, you and me get a tax break, but how good will that be when our employer has to start laying people off because it has to pay more in taxes.
Trickle down, not trickle up. Vote Libertarian, shrink the government and the need for taxes from anyone will dwindle.
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I've been continuing to give this some thought - and while I think that Obama does have some Socialist tendencies (as does much of the Democratic party), I think the impact of this interview and the true level of "Socialist/Communist" intent has been overblown.
While I can't be positive what Obama means by saying, "every body who is behind you, that they've got a chance at succcess too," it sounds like the American Dream, and supporting his model of creating an environment where infant businesses have a chance to start.
And while I agree that in saying, "If you've got a plumbing business, you're going to be better off if you've got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you. And right now, everybody is so pinched that business is bad for everybody. And I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody," he affirms that Democratic desire to have progressive taxes, I don't know that he's saying more than that, when combined with the context of the first quote.
Regardless, I have a hard time really being frustrated with either tax proposal, personally - as I'm not really hurt directly in either case. However, I am concerned with both major candidates willingness to bail out a banking business when Joe the Plumber would have sunk on his own had he made the same risky choices.
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