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 ...
Indeed. This is something even an idiotic "undecided" can understand. Use Obama's own words against him, and let him stumble through explaining what "sharing the wealth" means.
Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘til there are no rich no more
I’d love to change the world
but I don’t know what to do
THAT’S RACIST
I sure hope so.
Of course, a future prez Obama cannot impose a new tax. He needs a willing Congress to do it for him. There are only a handful of Senators who would be likely to filibuster such a tax increase in a D majority Senate. I do not count the R nominee among them, should he choose to remain in the Senate.
>> I wish these folks would get past the Disney version of the story.
Even in the Disney version of the story, the villain is the tax man. People have misinterpreted this story for a VERY long time.
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...not to mention racist.
THIS needs to be a TV ad that is run every hour from now until election day!!!! People need to go to the polls with Obama’s voice saying “spread the wealth” in their heads. They need to have the picture of that plumber in their minds ... “hey, he’s just like me”.
Maybe it will be worth watching CNN, just this once...
beat me by four seconds. :->
This jibes perfectly with that whacky answer he gave to Charlie Gibson concerning capital gains taxes during one of the democratic debates.
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
galloping through the sward,
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore,
and his horse Concorde.
He steals from the rich,
he gives to the poor,
Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore.
"Wait a tic...blimey...this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."
What I’d give to hear McCain call Obama an out and out socialist and his tax and economic plans pure socialism, but alas, knowing McCain, I will not hold my breath waiting.
The stated democrat goal is "a filibuster proof majority" in congress.
The plumber dude should have retorted: “But THAT’S Socialism!”
And so should McCain.
In fact, one could say that the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest were one of the original Right Wing Militias...
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Therein lies the problem. There will be nothing to redistribute, so we all will be equal.
Yes, my friends...Obama would be a great President. ;)
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