Income redistribution is really what Barack Obama’s tax proposals are all about. What Obama wants to do is increase the tax on small business owners, and give the money to people who haven’t earned it. The end result, of course, will be that small businesses will be less willing to expand their businesses and hire more people. And, the economy, the job market, and you and I will all suffer.
Want to set a conservative’s hair on fire? Just mention redistribution of wealth and watch the fireworks. It happened Sunday when Barack Obama was canvassing a neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio.
Fox News cameras were there and captured the conversation (which is now all over the Web) between a self-employed plumber named Joe Wurzelbacher and Obama.
More taxes?
Wurzelbacher explained that by working hard (10-12 hours a day) he was in a position to buy a business. If he bought a truck and expanded the business, he wondered if his success would be greeted by a penalty in the form of higher taxes.
“Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn’t it?” Wurzlebacher asked.
“It’s not that I want to punish your success,” Obama explained. “I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they’ve got a chance for success too. My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.”
This is called socialism folks. If it worked the Soviet Union would still be alive today, and France wouldn’t have an unemployment rate of 10%.
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