Posted on 10/15/2008 8:22:42 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Conservatives yesterday ripped Obama after he was caught on video telling an Ohio plumber that he intends to take the profits of small-business owners and "spread the wealth around" to those with lesser incomes.
The fracas over Obama's tax plan broke out Sunday outside Toledo when Joe Wurzelbacher approached the candidate.
Wurzelbacher said he planned to become the owner of a small plumbing business that will take in more than the $250,000 amount at which Obama plans to begin raising tax rates.
"Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" the blue-collar worker asked.
...Obama responded that it would...
Critics said Obama let the cat out of the bag.
"It's clear that his main goal is redistribution of wealth, not growth," said Andy Roth with the anti-tax group Club for Growth. "He's perfectly happy to destroy wealth as long as he can redistribute it."
Obama has been meticulous, Roth said, to conceal the "socialistic" nature of his tax plans. "But every once in a while, he lets it slip," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Thank you. You just created my ultimate fantasy debate moment for McCain tonight.
McCain raises his middle finger at one point and says "Redistribute THIS, my friend," to Obama. I know, it will never happen. But you can't stop me from dreaming.
Sure about that?
Why was prince John the acting prince?
Because King Richard the Lion Heart was overseas fighting the Saladin and the Saracens in the Holy Land.
Why was prince John raising taxes?
So that King Richard could fight his war.
So Robin would be stealing from the war effort...
The RAT’S been telling us all year how they’ll punish us if we elect them. Wake the f-ck up people. They can’t punish us if we don’t elect them.
Good point—I always thought that socialism was a huge catch-22. It doesn’t work unless you have perfect people, and if you had perfect people, no one would ever think about socialism. It’s the whole 20th-century utopian dream, which always ended in disaster and millions and millions of people dead and displaced. Capitalism takes people as they are: social status-seeking, ambitious, wanting to get ahead, and harnesses that to create wealth for everyone (even the relatively lazy or incompetent). Socialism is like the old joke about becoming a millionaire—okay, first find a million dollars. For socialism, it’s finding people who aren’t ambitious at all; that’s why the super-rich love it (they’ve got their status and see it as a way of pulling up the bridge after them) and lazy idiots love it (they see it as a way of getting something for nothing). Notice how, right at the very end, 0bama talks about hard work AND LUCK? These people think wealth is created by luck and unfairness rather than a dream, hard work and persistence. I’m just on the edge of starting my own business, but I’m not as willing to do it if 0bama and Pelosi are 60% partners. Those “next people that come along” that 0bama talks about to that plumber would be helped by job creation like that plumber is making, not handouts and wealth redistribution.
BTW, McCain never mentions that 0bama will eliminate the FICA cap, essentially taxing anyone making over 97K an extra 3%—and their employers an extra 3%. So essentially, he’s making social security into another welfare program, just like he’s doing with his “tax cuts,” which are welfare (like the “earned income tax credit”—welfare).
Robin Hood was a tax cutter. Robin Hood should be a conservative icon ... not a liberal stooge.
well said......bears repeating........often......but then they don't teach robin hood except in english class (liberal arts), so where's the surprise? a lie told often enough...........
>>They cant punish us if we dont elect them.<<
The sad thing that the Dems don’t realize is that BO and Biden are going to punish everybody if elected.
In 1991 Biden introduced legislation (SB 266) that compelled developers of encryption systems to give Big Brother the unencrypted original plaintext. A great public outcry made Biden back off.
Before Clinton was elected, some nerds thought that Al Gore would be on their side WRT First Amendment Rights. However, Big Brother got to Gore before he was inaugurated, and Gore became a champion of the “Clipper Chip,” which would provide a back door for Big Brother.
Very ironic, but people who think that Dems would be on the side of the First Amendment are going to be disappointed.
Oh, how I HOPE you are correct!!!
Actually, King Richard was being held captive and a ransom was suppose to be raised for his release.
King John had no intention of sending the money to have his brother released.
This was the same King John who was forced to sign the Magna Carta.
Sen. Obama never met a tax he didn’t like.
Robin Hood stole from the government to give it back to the people.
Obama wants to steal from the people to give it to the government
Obama isn’t Robin Hood. Obama is the Sheriff of Nottingham, taxing the public.
Robin Hood stole the collected taxes and gave it to the people.
“McCain talks tough at rallies but looks so uncomfortable in NObamas presence. Its as if the Messiah sucks all of McCains 02 out of the room or something.”
It’s probably B.O.’s own b.o. that does it.
Well he expects that puny little $3,000 tax credit he’s going to offer will cover such expenses.
Yes.
Why was prince John the acting prince?
Because the King was being held ransom.
Why was prince John raising taxes?
Allegedly to pay the King's ransom, but really just to line his pockets and pay off his cronies.
Robin Hood knew prince John was abusing the confiscatory taxes, so he just sought to return the money to the people who paid them.
At least prince John had the conscience to conceal his crimes. BHO tells us flat-out that he's taking money from the working class to give to the non-working class, which is nothing short of buying votes so he can obtain & keep power.
“Actually, King Richard was being held captive and a ransom was suppose to be raised for his release.”
That happened as well. First the fund raising was for the war effort. Later the fund raising was for his ransom after he was captured (by his own side).
He pissed off one of the co-rulers. So when he was shipwrecked on his way back...
“King John had no intention of sending the money to have his brother released.”
Perhaps so. But the money raised was for the war and for the release.
Funny how the same bad guys are in this story as in our current story. Hope we join together and defeat them this time instead of fighting amongst ourselves.
Oppose Obama and Lose Your Job? Joe the Plumber Gets Threatened By Toledo Officials
Federal Review | 10/16/08
Posted on 10/17/2008 8:42:17 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108062/posts
Good news: Toledo moves to shut down Joe the Plumber
Hot Air | 10/16/08
Posted on 10/16/2008 7:23:26 PM PDT by pabianice
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107685/posts
Get Out The Vote organizers voting illegally in Ohio
Palestra.net
Posted on 10/15/2008 8:18:27 AM PDT by HopeIsNotAPolicy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106147/posts
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