Public Opinion: Spreading the Wealth and Barack Obama

Raising taxes in a recession is disaster

I don't necessarily buy the "socialism" label, but raising taxes and restricting trade in a severe recession are the worst things you can do, and they will kill the job creation that is needed to get us out of the recession. You have to create wealth before you have anything to redistribute, as Sam Dealy quotes Teddy Roosevelt as saying. Barney Frank revealed the liberal Democratic agenda if they are unrestrained by McCain's veto pen when he said, "There are plenty of very rich people we can tax at some point down the road and recover some of this money." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k)

What bothers me even more is Obama saying that the Earl Warren Supreme Court failed to "break free of the essential bounds placed on it by the founding fathers in the Constitution." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VctiYQplw8) To me, it sounds like he is saying that it is OK for the Supreme Court to trample the Constitution to achieve liberal ends!! Regardless of what you believe about social issues, do we really want someone with this philosophy appointing Supreme Court justices?

Wake up, people! Obama is just a more extreme version of Jimmy Carter, and the change he would bring is a change to the same policies and the same results that Carter had. The parallels are uncanny. A charismatic figure comes from nowhere to win the Democratic nomination. He promises to soak the rich, put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies, cut taxes on the middle class (he never got around to that one), slash defense spending (hear Obama promising that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o84PE871BE&NR=1) to pay for a dramatic increase in spending on new government programs. All of these are the same with Obama. The result was the misery index, stagflation, a military in shambles (remember the failed hostage rescue attempt?), and our stature in the world lowered, not raised. What kind of signal will it send to Russia, Iran, North Korea, and Al Quaeda if we cancel missile defense, stop development of new combat weapon systems, and slash "tens of billions of dollars" from defense spending? Is that what we should be doing in this dangerous world?

McCain represents the opposite on every one of these issues. He will strengthen the military. He will reduce our high corporate tax rate so companies and small businesses will have a 10% increase in after-tax earnings to use for growing and creating more jobs. He will open more markets for American products, which creates jobs. He will help middle class families by doubling the dependent exemption, exempting unemployment benefits from income tax, and giving people $5000 to buy health insurance. He will veto bloated, wasteful spending bills. Since Carter, these policies have been proven to generate growth, prosperity, and jobs. Vote McCain!

I have never heard such a load of paranoia and distortion in my life! He made a remark about "spreading the wealth" to a guy who would get a tax break, and who in no way was in danger of being hurt by Barack Obama's tax plan! Even the most filthy rich corporate CEO would recieve an increase of 3%. We're not talking Communism here people!

Up until a year ago or so John McCain himself said the tax cuts for the top tier should not be extended. He said it was unfair! The Republican smear machine works overtime to pull the wool over people's eyes.

Social Security and Medicare can also be construed as Socialism. where is the big outcry about that???

Redistribute the wealth, please!

Dean of DC, please do try to take your medicine.

Right on JerryEZ of Texas, Bill of NY and Capt. America of MI.

When I raised my kids as a widow, I had to work long hours and two jobs and had an autistic kid and there was no help whatsoever from the system. Now every illegal gets our affordable housing, food stamps, and free medical care which closes hospitals causing them to go bankrupt.

We have the right to jobs so we can support our families. Stop with the old saw about illegals doing jobs we won't do. Pay decent wages and plenty of US citizens will work.

That and the church crooks (and I am a Christian), frost me when they tell people how to vote, tell us that we should not have welfare for Americans who can't find jobs and these so-called ministers say that people need to go get jobs! There are no freaking jobs. Tell those ministers flying around in corporate private jets and wearing expensive designer clothing to go get real jobs and take away from them that money they use for their comfort as well as all the tax benefits they have. They are exactly the ilk of the moneychangers Jesus drove from the temple with whips. AND IF THE SHOE FITS, WEAR IT!