[muawiyah]

There they go again. They just can't get it through their heads that folks making between $100,000 and $250,000 are NOT rich ~ they are making more than others, but they're struggling to get their business going so it can compete against the big guys, or they're putting their kids through a college a cut above what they'd ordinarily be able to afford, and that's so their "family" can progress up into the income categories the fat cats like the Kennedy's and Clinton's and Obama's are in.

Guess these wealthy Democrats can't stand new competition so they'll use the power of the state to tax to destroy those right behind them.

[nascent skeptic]

They just can't get it through their heads that folks making between $100,000 and $250,000 are NOT rich ~ they are making more than others, but they're struggling to get their business going so it can compete against the big guys, or they're putting their kids through a college a cut above what they'd ordinarily be able to afford, and that's so their "family" can progress up into the income categories the fat cats like the Kennedy's and Clinton's and Obama's are in.

So very true, worth repeating.

What defect of mind or character is it that democrats carry that keeps them locked into zero-sum thinking around money?

It is very similar to flat earth thinking...a stubborn refusal to acknowledge reality or even be curious about how it works. Are they so pinned to their jealousies and do-gooderism that they just can't grasp something so intrinsic to freedom?

The way I see it, capitalism illustrates spiritual law -- freedom with responsibility. Anyone who gets this close to the presidency should at least have some semblance of an idea about how banks work and how money is created. There are consequences to economic naivete, and Obama appears to have bitten so deeply into his (fellow traveler) mom's world view that he is completely incurious about how capitalism works.

[Centurion2000]

Guess these wealthy Democrats can't stand new competition so they'll use the power of the state to tax to destroy those right behind them.

That has ALWAYS been the case since estate taxes were introduced.